Class Notes for CULS30002 at University of Melbourne

CULS30002 02/05/16 Lecture 9 Beating Hollywood at its Own Game? The Korean Blockbuster Role in helping constitute (South East) Asian culture Regional popular culture Last 2 decades, major player in Asian film and ...

CULS30002 16/05/16 Lecture 11 Negotiating Queer Identity in Japanese Popular Culture Contesting mainstream forms of identity TV and representation of queer Media representations of queer lives in contemporary Japan ...

CULS30002 23/05/16 Lecture 12 Disrupting Narratives of Nationhood: Contemporary Documentary in Asia The documentary The way this form has developed in Asia region – different uses it has been put to Rise of critical...

CULS30002 18 April 2016 Lecture 7 Cultural Gatekeepers and Transnational markets: Film Festival Culture Cinema-as-institution Film festivals as cultural gatekeepers/ sites of transnational business Auteur Internati...

CULS30002 26/04/16 Lecture 8 Fansubbing as Informal Transnational Circulation What is fansubbing? Fan + subtitling Fan produced Amateur, volunteer, informal But not necessarily not -for-profit/ amateur Fansubbing t...

CULS30002 04/03/16 Lecture 5 Contemporary Media and Shifting Identities Media Activism in Hong Kong and Taiwan Social media and protests Taiwan and Sunflower movement Hong Kong and umbrella movement Reflections on ...

CULS30002 21/03/16 Lecture 4 Globalisation and its Discontents in China’s Sixth Generation Cinema Position of cinema in contemporary China Was is meant by ‘Sixth Generation’ Consider the conditions that exist for ...

CULS30002 11/03/16 Lecture 6 Transnational Action cinema Contemporary screen culture as “transnational” phenomenon Chinese marital genre (wuxia pian) as vehicle for thinki ng about different types of transnationalism...

CULS30002 14/03/16 Lecture 3 Re-imagining the Nation: China’s Fifth Generation Cinema Came to prominence in 1980s/ 1990s In West, many of these filmmakers still dominate the idea of what Chinese cinema is 5 Gen as ...

CULS30002 07/03/2016 Lecture 2 Visions of Modernity: Shanghai Vernacular Modernism and Socialist Realism Shanghai cinema of 1930s Socialist cinema of Maoist Period Historical background to these two periods Key aest...

CULS30002 29/02/16 Lecture One East Asia – closely interlinked histories, commonalities in cultures Degree of integration – ‘East Asian Cinema’ What is Asian cinema? Financed by capital from Asian region Contribute...