Cultural Studies Of Chinese Cinemas

This course introduces some fundamental ways of looking at Chinese Cinemas from Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China, and aims to familiarize the students with some of the major critical approaches in the field, e.g., generic conventions, auteur theory, narrative theory, cultural studies, etc. The students will be exposed to important cinematic masterworks in the history of Chinese Cinemas and taught how to make meaning of the developments of various recurring themes and concerns, and also how cinematic representation relates to and is influenced by Chinese culture.