Chinese Film in Global Context

Catalog description

This course studies the dynamic development of Chinese speaking cinema from the early 20th century to the present within a global context that impacts filmmaking beyond national borderlines. Through examining selected films from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, it explores the global perspectives of Chinese film and culture. Introducing Chinese cinema's national and transnational identities, cross-cultural influences, socialist censorship, international circulation, global popularity, and boundary-crossing experiments, this course provides students with a profound global consciousness to help them better understand the multi-faceted modern world through the lens of Chinese cinema and culture. IC, IIB. PA-3B, PA-4B. CAS-B. Cross-listed with CHI 264 .