| Comparative Literature 576A SLN 11383
Toward
the Domination of the Image: Recent China Scholarship in Visual
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| Instructor: |
Yomi
Braester |
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office: C-504 Padelford |
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office hours: by
appointment |
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e-mail: yomi@u.washington.edu |
Week 1: no class
Week 2: Intellectual debates in the 1980s and 1990s
Reading:
Zhang Xudong, Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Part I
Week 3: The cultural production of nostalgia
Reading:
Zhang Xudong, Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Parts II and III
Film
assignment: Zhang Yimou, The Story of Qiuju
Week 4: Intellectual debates in the 1980s and 1990s
Reading:
Jason McGrath, Postsocialism and Cultural Politics
Film
assignment: Feng Xiaogang, The Banquet
Week 5: What is visual modernity (seminar
with William Schaefer)
Readings:
David Summers, Real Spaces, introduction
James Elkins, "Marks, Traces... Nonsemiotic Elements in Pictures"
T.J.
Clark, "Art History in an Age of Image Machines"
Laikwan
Pang, The Distorting Mirror, Introduction and Chapter 1
Week 6 : Proto-cinematic and cinematic modernity
Readings:
Laikwan Pang, The Distorting Mirror
Zhang
Zhen, An Amourous History of the Silver Screen, "Teahouse, Shadowplay,
and Laborer's Love"
Film
assignment: Laborer's Love
Week 7: The pathology of vision
Readings:
Larissa Heinrich, The Afterlife of Images
Donald
Preziosi, Rethinking Art History, “The Coy Science”
Week 8: Rey Chow’s interventions in film studies
Reading:
Rey Chow, Sentimental Fabulations
Film
assignments: Ann Hui, Song of Exile; Li Yang, Blind Shaft
Week 9: The city as a neoliberal construction
Readings:
Yomi Braester, Painting the City Red, Chapter 7
Yomi
Braester and James Tweedie, Cinema on the City’s Edge, Introduction
Film
assignment: Jia Zhangke, The World
Week 10: Branding cultures
Readings:
Alexander Des Forges, Mediascape Shanghai
Jing
Wang, Branding New China (selection)
ALSO:
student presentations