Week 1
Introduction
Class 1
Screening: The Hands (Eros, 2004)
I Traveled 9000 km To Give It To You (Chacun son cinema, 2007) for the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival
wkw/tk/1996@7’55”hk.net (1996) for Takeo Kikuchi
Follow (The Hire, 2001) for BMW
There’s Only One Sun (2007) for Philip Aurea
Six Days (2002) music video for DJ Shadow
Class 2
Reading:
· Lalanne, Jean-Marc. “Image from Inside” Wong Kar-Wai. Dis Voir: Paris, 1997. 9-28
· Stringer, Julian. “Wong Kar-wai.” Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers. Ed. Yvonne Tasker. Routledge: New York/ London, 2002. 395-402.
· Cow, Rey. “Sentimental Returns: On the Use of the Everyday in the Recent Films of Zhang Yimou and Wong Kar-wai.” Reading Chinese Transnationalisms: Society, Literature, Film. Eds. Maria Ng, and Phillip Holden. Hong Kong University Press: Hong Kong, 2006. 173-188.
Week 2
In Mainstream Gear: First step into Hong Kong Film Industry
Class 3
· Screening: As Tears Go By (1988)
Class 4
Reading:
· Teo, Stephen. “As Tears Go By.” Wong Kar-Wai. British Film Institute: London, 2005. 15-30.
· Brunette, Peter. “As Tears Go By.” Wong Kar-Wai. University of Illinois Press: Urbanna/ Chicago, 2005. 1-15.
Week 3
Wong’s Heartbreak Tango
Class 5
Screening: Days of Being Wild (1990)
Class 6
Reading:
· Teo, Stephen. “Days of Being Wild.” Wong Kar-Wai. British Film Institute: London, 2005. 31-46.
· Brunette, Peter. “Days of Being Wild.” Wong Kar-Wai. University of Illinois Press: Urbanna/ Chicago, 2005. 16-29.
Week 4
Space-Time Tango: Wong’s portrayal of the urban and its dwellers.
Class 7
Screening: Chungking Express (1994)
Class 8
Reading:
· Martinez, David. “Chasing the Metaphysical Express.” Wong Kar-Wai. Dis Voir: Paris, 1997. 29-38.
· Teo, Stephen. “Chungking Express.” Wong Kar-Wai. British Film Institute: London, 2005. 47-64.
· Brunette, Peter. “Chungking Express.” Wong Kar-Wai. University of Illinois Press: Urbanna/ Chicago, 2005. 45-56.
Week 5
Wong’s Biographical Histories of Knights Errant
Class 9
Screening: Ashes of Time (1994)
Class 10
Reading:
· Teo, Stephen. “Ashes of Time.” Wong Kar-Wai. British Film Institute: London, 2005. 65-82.
· Brunette, Peter. “Ashes of Time.” Wong Kar-Wai. University of Illinois Press: Urbanna/ Chicago, 2005. 30-44.
Week 6
Pathos Angelical
Class 11
Screening: Fallen Angles (1995)
Class 12
Reading:
· Siegel, Marc. “The Intimate Spaces of Wong Kar-wai.” At Full Speeds: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World. Ed. Esther C. M. Yau. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis/ London, 2001. 277-94.
· Teo, Stephen. “Fallen Angels.” Wong Kar-Wai. British Film Institute: London, 2005. 83-97.
· Brunette, Peter. “Fallen Angels.” Wong Kar-Wai. University of Illinois Press: Urbanna/ Chicago, 2005. 57-69.
Film Analysis Due In-class.
Week 7
Wong’s Buenos Aires Affair and his portrayal of the characters’ physically and mentally solitary.
Class 13
Screening: Happy Together (1997)
Class 14
Reading:
· Abbras, Ackbar. “The Erotics of Disappointment.” Wong Kar-Wai. Dis Voir: Paris, 1997. 39-82.
· Teo, Stephen. “Happy Together.” Wong Kar-Wai. British Film Institute: London, 2005. 98-113.
· Brunette, Peter. “Happy Together.” Wong Kar-Wai. University of Illinois Press: Urbanna/ Chicago, 2005. 70-85.
Week 8
The Performance of Gender and the portrayal of affection in all types.
Class 15
Screening: Hua yang de nian hua (2000, short)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Class 16
Reading:
· Palmer, Augusta Lee, and Jenny Kwok Wah Lau. “Of Executioners and Courtesans: The Performance of Gender in Hong Kong Cinema of the 1990s”. Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia. Ed. Jenny Kwok Wah Lau. Temple University Press: Philadelphia, 2003. 203-21.
· Teo, Stephen. “In the Mood for Love.” Wong Kar-Wai. British Film Institute: London, 2005. 114-133.
· Brunette, Peter. “In the Mood for Love.” Wong Kar-Wai. University of Illinois Press: Urbanna/ Chicago, 2005. 86-100.
Week 9
Wong’s Time Odyssey: China’s Promise of 15 Years no Chang.
Class 17
Screening: 2046 (2004)
Class 18
Reading:
· Teo, Stephen. “2046.” Wong Kar-Wai. British Film Institute: London, 2005. 134-152.
· Brunette, Peter. “2046.” Wong Kar-Wai. University of Illinois Press: Urbanna/ Chicago, 2005. 101-106.
Week 10
Special Screening and Overview
Class 19
Screening: My Blueberry Nights (2007)
Reading:
· Teo, Stephen. “Mini-Projects and Conclusion.” Wong Kar-Wai. British Film Institute: London, 2005. 153-166.
Class 20
Final Project Presentation.
Written Final Paper due on the first day of final exam week. (TBA)
