BEIJ FSCF 360 - Contemporary China through Film

Institution:

Arcadia University

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Description:

The course will give an overview of major films produced in mainland China since 1949. We will examine the genres of Chinese film better known in contemporary China, and consider them a major source of reflection and critique of contemporary Chinese society. The focus will be on the fifth-generation mainland cinema, as well as some films from the 1950s and 1970s, and most important of all, some classics directed by the new generation of filmmakers of the 1990s that are normally grouped under the rubric of the sixth-generation directors. All films chosen for the course will help inform our understanding of modern China in terms of its material conditions and ideology. Furthermore, the narrative structures and cinematic images celebrate the changes and convey the anxieties associated with it. (Beijing, China, http://www.allianceglobaled.org/beijing.html)

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.arcadia.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 572-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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