tbrennan requests:





> I'm developing a course in Asian Film studies -- Japan, China, Hong

> Kong, Vietnam, India -- and would appreciate suggestions on texts and

> reading sources.



Is there a particular focus to the course?  Is it lower-level,

upper-level and/or grad?  Is it part of a particular curricular

program?  Are you restricting your studies to recent, post-WWII, or

earlier films?



I ask because Asian Film is a huge area.  The literature on Japanese

film alone is extensive.  If you're concentrating on a few "auteurs,"

or a particular movement or genre, that's one thing, but the history of

the Indian and Japanese film industries are subjects for a whole course

of their own.  A search of the Library of Congress website for books

should give you an hint of the extent of material out there.  Also see

the bibliographies in David Cook's A HISTORY OF NARRATIVE FILM and

Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell's FILM HISTORY: AN INTRODUCTION.



Don Larsson





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Donald Larsson

Minnesota State U, Mankato

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