schedule

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 60^th 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)

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