Travelling Texts, Moving Images: East Meets West in Film Remakes

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This course is an interdisciplinary study of transnational film remakes as both a cultural phenomenon and a popular cinematic entertainment subgenre. It aims to promote both cross-cultural understanding and intercultural communication through transnational film remakes and their comparative studies. As one of the most frequently consumed cultural products, films are powerfully reflexive of their unique cultural contexts, socio-economic values, aesthetic and moral choices, as well as political and ideological propensities. In this bilingual class, we will develop oral and writing skills to share our understandings of Chinese cinematic history, media culture, and society as seen through the lens of Hollywood's globalized media re-production and explore alternative points of views that can be found in these East-West film remakes and transnational film adaptations. 002258