hong kong and cinema

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Essay Question: David Bordwell’s analysis of film style depends heavily on concepts like norms, conventions, and routines. These concepts and their place in bordwell’s methodology assume and imply a lot about the film industry and filmmakers – but what do they assume and imply about film spectators?

– the essay must examine Chungking Express«????»(1994) and The Midnight After«????, ???????????? VAN»(2014), these two movies
– the essay must propose and prove a main idea. A good main idea is concrete and specific, is neither obvious nor self-evident, is based on evidence and its interpretation, and anticipates counterarguments.
– with regard to written sources, it is more important to demonstrate knowledge of the required readings than of extra readings. you may but do no have to do extra readings for this paper; if you choose to do so, please start with the optional readings on syllabus and the books on reserve.
– required readings:
Ackbar Abbas, Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance (Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
David Bordwell, Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment, 2nd
ed. (Madison: Irvington Way Institute Press, 2011). Please use this 2nd edition, not
the 1st edition
optional: Gary McDonogh and Cindy Wong, Global Hong Kong (New York: Routledge, 2005)
– the essay must have a meaningful title. “question 2”, “a better tomorrow and office” are not meaningful titles.
– 12 point font, double spaced with 1″ margins on all sides.