LIT 2900 - Chinese Cinema (4)

Oakland University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

Syllabus

Course Information:
CRN: 45368
Campus: Main Campus
Schedule Type: Lecture

Monday,Wednesday

03:30 PM - 05:17 PM

Main Campus Campus | South Foundation Hall | Room 166

A study of Chinese film as a mirror of the cultures and aesthetics of various societies. Topics to be selected by the instructor. This class satisfies the General Education requirement in the arts knowledge exploration area. Prequisite(s): None

Professor Information:
Instructor: Mingming Liu

mingmingliu@oakland.edu

Learning Outcomes:
1. Demonstrate greater appreciation and knowledge of the historical, political, social, cultural, and artistic figures and events that have significantly shaped modern Chinese society and civilization

2. Demonstrate a historically informed understanding of the development and aesthetics of Chinese cinema as a vital and prominent component of modern and contemporary Chinese culture

3. Demonstrate greater appreciation and knowledge of film as a form of cultural and aesthetic expression and an apparatus for social diversity and change

4. Demonstrate knowledge of the formal and aesthetic features of film arts and of the basic concepts of formalist film analysis

5. Demonstrate critical awareness of how a specific cultural, historical, and political context shapes the ideological meaning of a film

6. Apply knowledge of film techniques and aesthetics to critical film analysis

Textbooks and Materials:
Chinese Films in Focus II, ed. Chris Berry. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-1844572373; ISBN-10: 1844572374

Film Studies: An Introduction, by Ed Sikov. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. ISBN-13: 978-0231142939; ISBN-10: 0231142935

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