Course Syllabus

Course Information：

Year-Semester	Course Number	Course Name	Phase	Credits	Hours	Required/Elective	Instructor	Class	Student NO.	Withdraw	Note
Spring Semester Year 2024	331547	Cinematic Urbanism Studies	1	3.0	3	★	CHEN, YING-FEN	GAUD DID	14	1	建都所和設計博合開

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Instructor	CHEN, YING-FEN　Office Hours
Email	yingfenchen@ntut.edu.tw
Last Updated	2024-02-26 13:23:51
Course Objective	While cinema has been invented over a hundred years and getting influential in shaping people’s perspectives to our environments, the studies of cinematic urbanism have only initiated since 1990s. During the past decades, this interdisciplinary field has developed upon the scholarships of various disciplines, including film and media studies, cultural studies, history, geography, urban studies, etc. This course intends to introduce this still young field through chronologically examining the relationships between cinema and cities, from both being used to celebrate and mediate the modern feelings to film noir playing a crucial role to criticize and depict urban problems, and to cinematic urban imaginaries boosting tourism and intervening in urban process. Students will learn the theories and methodologies of cinematic urbanism studies, comprehending cinema and different urban spaces as powerful medium that could be manipulated to create, transmit, and perceive certain ideologies.
Course Schedule	Week 01 Introduction Week 02 Holiday: Peace Memorial Day Week 03 Man with a Movie Camera in the Modern City Week 04 Modernism in Architecture and Cinema: Sergei Eisenstein and Le Corbusier Week 05 Mediating the American Modernism through Cinematic Spaces Week 06 Shanghai Modern: Urban Culture and Film Industry Week 07 Holiday: Spring Break/Children’s Day Week 08 Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity Week 09 Future Urban Imaginations and Si-fi Cinema Week 10 Midterm Presentation Week 11 Postmodern Aesthetics and Taiwan’s New Wave Cinema Week 12 Hong Kong Cinema and the City on Fire Week 13 The Film Studio: Film Production in the Global Era Week 14 From Fans’ Cinematic Pilgrim to Film-induced Tourism Week 15 Cinematic Promotion and Cultural Governance in Contemporary Cities Week 16 Cinematic Historiography and Community Design Week 17 Final Presentation (I) Week 18 Final Presentation (II)
Evaluation and grading policy	15% Attendance 30% Participations 15% Midterm Presentation 40% Final Presentation and Essay
Materials	All right reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Foreign-language textbooks:Yes Simmel, Georg (1903, 1971) "The Metropolis and Mental Life", trans. Edward A. Shils in Our Individuality and Social Forms, ed. Donald N. Levine. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 324-339. Bruno, Giuliana (1997) “Site-seeing: Architecture and the Moving Image” in Wide Angle 19.4, 8-24. Vidler, Anthony (2019) “The Eisenstein Effect: Architecture and Narrative Montage in Sergei Eisenstein and Le Corbusier” in The Moving Eye: Film, Television, Architecture, Visual Art, and the Modern, ed. Edward Dimendberg. Oxford University Press. Eisenstein, S., Bois, Y., & Glenny, M. (1989). Montage and Architecture. Assemblage, (10), 111-131. Hansen, Miriam (1994) “Introduction: Cinema Spectatorship and Public Life” and “Chameleon and Catalyst: The Cinema as an Alternative Public Sphere” in Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film. Harvard U. Press. Nasaw, David (1999) “Dollar Theaters, Concert Saloons, and Dime Museums” and “Something for Everybody” at the Vaudeville Theater” in Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements. Harvard U. Press. Hansen, Miriam (2000)“Fallen Women, Rising Stars, New Horizons: Shanghai Silent Film as Vernacular Modernism,” Film Quarterly 54.1: 10-22. Pang Laikwan (2007) “Introduction,” “Chapter 1,” “Chapter 5” in The Distorting Mirror. University of Hawai'i Press, 1-68, 164-183. Dimendberg, Edward. (2004) “Introductin” and “Simultaneity, the Media Environment, and the End of Film Noir” in Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity. Harvard University Press. Tsutsui, W. (2010). “Oh No, There Goes Tokyo: Recreational Apocalypse and the City in Postwar Japanese Popular Culture.” In Prakash G. (Ed.), Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 104-126. Prakash, G. (2010). “Introduction: Imaging the Modern City, Darkly.” In Prakash G. (Ed.), Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 1-14. AlSayyad, Nerza. (2006) “An alternative modernity: race, ethnicity and the urban experience” and “Exurban postmodernity: utopia, simulacra and hyper-reality” in Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern from Reel to Real. Routledge Press. Jameson, Frederick (1992) “Remapping Taipei” in The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 114-157. Chang. Yvonne (2005) “The Terrorizer and the Great Divide in Contemporary Taiwan’s Cultural Development.” In Island on the Edge: Taiwan New Cinema and After. Ed. Chris Berry and Feii Lu. Hong Kong University Press, 13-26. Abbas, M A. (1997) “Introduction: Culture in a Spcae of Disappearance.” In Hong Kong: culture and the politics of disappearance. University of Minnesota Press, 1-15. Cheung, Ester M. K. (2004) “The City that Haunts: The Uncanny in Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong.” In Cheung, Ester M. K., Chu, Yiu-wai Ed. Between Hong and World: A Reader in Hong Kong Cinema. Oxford U. Press, 352-368. Krause, Linda and Petro, Patrice ed. (2003) Global Cities: Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in Digital Age. Routledge Press. (selected chapter, TBD). Goldsmith, Ben and O'Regan, Tom (2005) “International Production and Globalization” and “The Same but Different Canadian Studios and International Production” in The Film Studio: Film Production in the Global Economy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Beeton, Sue. (2005) “Popular Media and Tourism” and “film Studio Theme Park success and Fallings” in Film-Induced Tourism. Channel View Publications. Roberts, Les (2012) “Cinematic Geography: Mobilizing the Archive City” and “Cinematic Cartography: Mapping the Archive City” in Film, Mobility, and Urban Space: A Cinem
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Note	*No class on 2/29 because the instructor will be oversea for an academic meeting.. How to make up the class will be announced in the next meeting. 2/29的課程因教師出國研討會暫停，補課方式會於下次課程時公布。 If being under the COVID-19 influence, the class will be held online through teams and the link will be announced here or via LINE group message. Please contact the instructor via yingfenchen@ntut.edu.tw if needed.