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106-014 Hong Kong Cinema | |
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Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Audrey Yue |
Prerequisites | Fifty points of first-year arts including at least 25 points from a specified list of subject areas, see Prerequisites. |
Semester | Not Offered (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1.5-hour lecture, a 2-hour film screening and a 1-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | This subject examines contemporary Hong Kong cinema as a seminal cultural formation constituted in local, regional and global flows. Particular to this is the screening of an alternative Asian modernity expressed through post-colonial-postmodernity, dis-appearance and the preposterous. Students will understand these articulations by exploring cinematic practices such as Hong Kong noir, action, horror and martial arts cultures, Canto-pop and the Hollywood remake. Films discussed in detail include award-winning popular films by Jackie Chan, John Woo, Johnny To, Wong Kar-wai, Stanley Kwan, Clara Law and Ann Hui. Students completing this subject should have a strong critical and historical knowledge of Hong Kong modernity, Hong Kong cinema and its politics of transition, and their relation to global media and contemporary culture. |
Assessment | One essay of 1500 words 40% due mid-semester, and one essay of 2500 words 60% due at the end of the semester. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. Films:
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