EAST 206 - Modern Chinese Literature and Film: The Art of Adaptation

FC ARHU CD WINT

4 credits
This course studies Chinese film-fiction adaptation from 1984-2012 both as an aesthetic interaction between the literary and the cinematic and as a political negotiation between artists and the state. Authors and directors to include are Eileen Chang, Su Tong, Mo Yan, Stanley Kwan, Zhang Yimou, Hou Xiaoxian, and others.

This course is cross-listed with CINE-206