Courses / Undergraduate

Spring 2020

  • The “New Wave” and Contemporary Chinese Film Auteurs

    151 | CCN: 19772

    Weihong Bao

    4 Units

    MW 9:30am-11am, Location: Dwinelle 188

    Screening: W 11am-1pm, Location: Dwinelle 188

    This course introduces Chinese film auteurs since the late 1970s across the geopolitical divides between Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. We will focus on individual film auteurs (Jia Zhangke, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wong Kar Wai, etc.) situated in distinct “new wave” movements in these three different regions, each in conversation with the global “new wave” cinema while engaging their respective political and cultural history. The class will combine inquiries of film style with pressing political and social issues facing contemporary Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Introducing major scholarship on contemporary Chinese language cinema, this class will investigate the assumptions and validity of the notion of “film auteur” as well as notions of New Wave cinema based on a European, particularly French model.