movie “The Founding of the Republic” the definitive film on the Chinese Civil War?
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PAAS 358: SCREENING THE NATION – HISTORY AND FILM
Final TOPIC – The Last Word: Is movie The Founding of the Republic the definitive film on the Chinese Civil War?

Required reading for this movie: Tang Xiaobing, “How (not) to View a Chinese Blockbuster,” in Tang, Visual Culture in Contemporary China: Paradigms and Shifts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

The course require reading are:

Berry, Chris, ed., Chinese Films in Focus II. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008 (PN1993.5 C4C466 2008).

Berry, Chris, and Mary Farquhar, China on Screen: Cinema and Nation. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. (PN1993.5 C4 B46).

Berry, Michael, Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004 (PN1993.5 C4 B49 2005).

Clark, Paul, Chinese Cinema: Culture and Politics Since 1949. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. (PN1993.5 C4 C58).

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Silbergeld, Jerome, China Into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema. London: Reaktion Books, 1999. (PN1993.5 C4S55).

Zhang, Yingjin, Chinese National Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2004. (PN1993.5 C4Z5285).

The best bibliography by far for Western writing on Chinese film is the “media” section of the Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center. http://u.osu.edu/mclc/bibliographies/media/. This is the place to go to find material on directors and their work.

The best bibliography by far for Western writing on Chinese film is the “media” section of the Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center. http://u.osu.edu/mclc/bibliographies/media/. This is the place to go to find material on directors and their work.

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