Inter-Asian Cinema: transborder mirroring, cultural representation and visual activism
schedule

Feb 21   introduction, grouping, blogging, facebooking
               (http://albertfju.blogspot.com)
               (https://www.facebook.com/weimin.tang.3)
              2 images  (student + filmmakers, asian and non-asian),
              2 paragraphs (auteur, film style, genre, filmmaker)
Feb 28   off
Mar 7     Mapping Asia: cultural studies,  traveling, post-colonialist, tourist gaze, diaspora,
               Inter-asia Cultural Studies: Asia as Method,  Political Economyof Culture:
               IA cinema: as text (for recognizing ourselves) and context (for reflecting what is behind the 
               screen)
Mar 14.  Asia, Hollywood and Chinese subjectivity
Mar 21   Hollywood and Asian Mascunility (screening, storyboarding, blogging)
Mar 28   Asian v.s. Inter-Asian: repositioning

Apr 4      off
Apr  11   Korea cinema: 100 years (screening)(group comment)
Apr 18    Indian (screening) (gc) / Bollywood, Tollywood
Apr 25    Israeli (screening) (gc) / Jewish/ Hebrew
May 2     Japan (screening) (gc) / Greater Asia?
May 9     Malaysia or Singapore (gc)/ Chinese diaspora
May 16   From Border to Border (screening) (gc)

May 23   preparation
               Poster fair: one minute video uploaded,
               Inter-asian visual activism (production proposal)
               cultural discourse, articulating, critical creativity, self-empowerment)
               cinematic, televisuality, visuality based on Inter-asian connectivities
               interests in "inter-"asian cultural nexus: textual analysis, auteur portrait, nationalist politics,
               film style(s), trans-asian concerns... etc.,
May 30   Poster fair: personal project
Jun  6      Poster fair: personal project
Jun 13     Poster fair: personal project
Jun 20     evaluation and reflection, assignment handed in (poster, video, notes-essays)