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National and transnational cinemas

Screen at least one of the following films this week: I encouage you to see as much as you can this summer!

  • Monsoon Wedding(India et al, 2001) – Mira Nair’s biggest box office success
  • A Simple Life (Hong Kong, 2011) – Ann Hui’s minor key gem
  • Wild Tales (Argentina, 2014) – Damián Szifron’s Tarantino-esque set of variations on a theme

Criterion has been streaming a Mira Nair retrospective this year… A little digging will reward you with additional Ann Hui films, to say nothing of the wealth of film from South America!

Discussion board (20 points)

Our final week for this condensed summer course! We’re reading about national and transnational cinemas, streaming films from both the Americas and Asia, and we’re collaborating on an online map of global cinema… We even have a couple of flipgrid assignments! All of these things are on the table… On top of that, I’m happy to entertain a conversation regarding what you liked about the class (and wouldn’t mind seeing more of), as well as what you didn’t like about the class (and wouldn’t mind seeing less of)… Your feedback is really useful to me as I look ahead to multiple online sections of this class in September! 

  • Sign-up wiki

MAKE YOUR CHOICE OF ENTRIES TODAY! EVERYONE SHOULD PICK TWO ITEMS TO WORK ON…

Please sign up for two different entries on our interactive Global Cinema map… Everyone should have one entry from Pool A (a list of entries based on shared readings and screenings) and one entry from Pool B (a list of entries based on individual interests–and let’s try to build that in chronological order, ok?).Make sure you’ve signed up for two entries asap for your initial 50 points… You have the rest of this Sign up!

Created By  Bjorn Ingvoldstad on Tuesday, June 21, 2022 10:52:08 PM EDT

last modified by  Olivia Aubin on Wednesday, June 22, 2022 1:19:28 PM EDT

POOL A – Shared content. Pick one of the listed entries by adding your name to the right of the entry… Please keep the entries in alphabetical order. 

  • Argentinian cinema – 
  • Asian cinema-Michael Poirier
  • Bollywood-  
  • Bong Joon-Ho – Devin Biello, Aidan Washington, Teagan Parker
  • Cannes Film Festival – Briana Jusseaume, Olivia Aubin
  • European cinema-  Joe Auriemma
  • Hui, Ann – 
  • Nollywood- Oluchi Enaworu
  • Indian cinema- 
  • Jia Zhang-ke- 
  • Mohandas, Geethu – 
  • Nair, Mira – 
  • Romanian cinema- 
  • Tsai, Ming-liang –
  • Varda, Agnès – 
  • Venice Film Festival – Grace Leopold
  • Vinterberg, Thomas – 

POOL B – Individual content. Please add one entry to the list, keeping the list in alphabetical order by entry (adding your name to the right of the entry).

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Claire Denis – Grace Leopold

Dogtooth – Joe Auriemma

Lion Heart – Oluchi Enaworu

Snowpiercer – Aidan Washington

Steel Rain – Michael Poirier

The Meyerowitz Stories – Briana Jusseaume

The Handmaiden – Teagan Parker, Olivia Aubin

Titane – Devin Biello

Collaborative final (150 points total)

Make sure you choose two entry ideas (below)–the map for collaborative work will open later this week! Nothing to upload to Blackboard; rather, we’ll use an off-Blackboard tool (like we do with Flipgrid) to collaboratively build the project. Everything should be up by the end of the semester (6/27)…

The big assignment in the final week of Summer 2022 (150 points total, or 15% of your final grade) will be to collaborate on an interactive Global Cinema map. Everyone in class will be selecting a pair of entries (be it films, directors, actors, national cinemas, etc), and then pulling together web-based materials to supplement each of your two short, 250-word written posts. We’ll make mapping selections, then work on entries… 

Here’s our collaborative project for the semester–together gathering material on global cinema to share online! Everyone picks two entries (go to our Wiki to make your selection)… Then for each entry I’d like you to gather the following:

  • an entry of approximately 250 words –for instance, any kind of summary and/or critical take on your subject (from our textbook or elsewhere) that you think would be interesting to the rest of the class (and our fellow travellers)
  • at least two additional elements of web content to make your entry vibrant (a link to a webpage, film trailer, photos / stills, etc)

CLICK HERE to upload your entries to Padlet! Use the tool to include video, web links, and your short entries… and then plot them on our map!

Two posts to upload: EACH of them should include a 250-word entry + two web-rich items (e.g. hyperlink, still image, video)… Make sure you sign your name (or at least your initials) to ensure you get credit for your work! The initial wiki sign-up is 50 points, and then the two posted entries are another 100 points… Make sure you sign up for (and do) two entries!