Some details of this outline may change as a result of circumstances such as weather cancellations, College and student activities, and class timetabling. Instruction Mode: In-Class Professor: Peter Steven and others Resource(s): | | | All readings are available electronically through SLATE. All films are available via the Sheridan library as DVDs or through streaming. | | | Applicable student group(s): General Education Elective Course Details: Module 1: The Three Chinas Unit 1 Why Study Films? What is International Cinema? Screening: Selected scenes from: Drunken Master (Jackie Chan, Hong Kong, 1978); Lost in Hong Kong (Xu Zhang, China, 2015), A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, China, 2013) Unit 2 Tools of film analysis – Mise-en-Scene and Cinematography Screening: Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (Ang Lee, Taiwan, 1994) Reading: CultureGrams and BBC Country Files for China and Taiwan Module 2: India Unit 3 Authorship / Genre. Themes and Motifs Screening: The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra India, 201x) Reading: CultureGrams and BBC Country Files: India; Mast and Kawin, “Asian postwar cinema,” in A Short History of the Movies, 2017, pp. 271-290. Unit 4 Quiz #1 - 10% Film Style and Genre Screening: Water (Deepa Mehta, India, 2006) Reading: Devyani Saltzman, Shooting Water (Key Porter, 2005), selections. Unit 5 Film Narrative: Story and Plot Screening: Lipstick Under My Burkha (Alankrita Shrivastava, India,2016 Reading: Ashish Rajadhyaksha, “India: Filmming the Nation,” in Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Oxford History of World Cinema, 1996, pp. 678 – 689) Unit 6 India’s Bollywood and Parallel Cinemas Screening: Welcome to Sajjanpur (Shyam Benegal, India, 2008) Watch before class: Cinema Asia: India (Documentary on Bollywood – link in SLATE) Mid-term - 20% Module 3: Western Asia Unit 7 Quiz # 2 - 10% Children and Politics Screening: Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi, Iran, 1997) Screening: Reading: Culture Grams and BBC: Iran Unit 8 Animation and Politics Screening: Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi, Iran 2007) Unit 9 Quiz #3 - 10% The Lives of Girls Screening: Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Turkey, 2015) Reading: CultureGrams and BBC: Turkey Module 4: South America and the Caribbean Unit 10 Che Guevara, revolutionary Screening: Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles, Brazil, 2004) Unit 11 Essay Due - 25% The Art Film Screening: The Headless Woman (Lucretia Martel, Argentina 2008) Reading: CultureGrams and BBC: Argentina Unit 12 Course Review Negritude and the Caribbean Experience Screening: Sugar Cane Alley (Euzhan Palcy, Martinique, 1983) Reading: CultureGrams and BBC: Martinique Final Exam - 25% |