Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Center for Study of Languages

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CHINESE FILMS & MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE ***** Designed to approach modern Chinese literature through visual images (Chinese films, subtitled in English), this course analyzes movie adaptations in comparison with thier original texts. The approach is intended to examine how and why different time periods and different media affect the theme of a story. Discussion focuses on lieterary and cultural history, with attention given to narratology and movie theories as well. Topics include: China's modernity and the formation and cinematic visualization of modern Chinese literature; self, state, and nation; sex, gender, and power; etc. All readings in Englis translation. ***** Also offered as ASIA 332.