Chinese Culture & Film

Interdisciplinary Studies

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Chinese Culture and Film CHST 416G (in Spring 2013 double booked with ENGL 416R-001 CRN 24266 = CINE 416R-001 CRN 22713, THEA 416R-001 CRN 24288 = HUM 414R-001, CRN 24399)

The course is open for everybody and is taught in English.
We screen and discuss a selection of films from internationally acclaimed Chinese directors. Students pick a film director or actor and enact him/her throughout the semester in class. They present his/her philosophy, style, works and view, and put him/her into the context of Chinese film history. Moreover, they interact with other “film directors” and exchange views. Includes film screening of both, famous and underground Chinese films, as well as new releases.

Instructor: Dr. Martin Woesler, Email: martin.woesler@uvu.edu
Office hours: Thu 9.15 a.m. – 9.45 a.m. PE 151 F, phone: +1 (801) 863 5195
Chinese Lunch: Tue Thu 1.00 p.m. – 1.30 p.m., 2^nd floor SC cafeteria

Course web site: https://uvu.instructure.com/courses/220488,
Syllabus: https://uvu.instructure.com/courses/220488/assignments/syllabus,
Wiki: http://wiki.vm.rub.de/uvu/index.php/Chinese_Culture_and_Film
Student rating of instruction: Spring 2012 Instructor 4.18 of 5.00 (83.6%), Course 3.54 of 5.00 (70.8%)

Media:

Berry, Michael. Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese, Filmmakers. Columbia UP, 2005, ISBN 978-0231133319, A #417,632

Chris Berry, Chinese Films in Focus II, Paperback, 304 pp., British Film Institute; 2nd Revised edition edition, December 23, 2008, ISBN: 9781844572373, A #526,197

Zhang Zhen (Editor), Jason McGrath (Contributor), Chris Berry (Contributor), Sheldon H. Lu (Contributor), Yinjing Zhang (Contributor), The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, Paperback, 464 pp., Duke University Press Books, March 7, 2007, ISBN: 9780822340744, A#655,344

Email the instructor to ask to visit the class as student or peer

This course is normally offered in Spring semester.

Chinese Studies : martin.woesler@UVU.EDU | 801.863.5195 | ROOM PE-151F

Last Updated 3/25/13