週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
Week 1 |
2/27 |
NO CLASS |
Week 2 |
3/06 |
Taiwan in the 1980s: economic growth and socio-politics |
Week 3 |
3/13 |
Taiwan in the 1980s: social movement and “national” culture |
Week 4 |
3/20 |
Taiwan New Cinema: the movement, aesthetics, techniques
Film Appreciation & Discussion: Dust in the Wind (1986) |
Week 5 |
3/27 |
Taiwan New Cinema: key members
Film Appreciation & Discussion: The Terrorizer (1986) |
Week 6 |
4/03 |
NO CLASS |
Week 7 |
4/10 |
Taiwan New Cinema in the 1990s: The Decline and the Second Wave |
Week 8 |
4/17 |
The City: landscape, history, and collective memory; the body, being and emptiness |
Week 9 |
4/24 |
Midterm Exam Week: student presentation |
Week 10 |
5/01 |
Gender issues emergent in Taiwan since the 1990s |
Week 11 |
5/08 |
In Search for Root: Ethnic cultures in Taiwan till the early 2000s |
Week 12 |
5/15 |
In Search for Root: Westernization/Modernization and Colonial History in Taiwan
Suggested reading: 《台灣西方文明初體驗》
Film appreciation: Viva Tonal – The Dance Age (2003) |
Week 13 |
5/22 |
In Search for Root: Agriculture, Social Justice, and Documentary in Taiwan
Film appreciation: 《不能戳的秘密2:國家機器》(2013)
Suggested reading: 《江湖在哪裡?─台灣農業觀察》 |
Week 14 |
5/29 |
Postcolonial Taiwan: the questions of immigrant spouses & migrant workers |
Week 15 |
6/05 |
Film appreciation: The Other Side (對岸異鄉人, 2012) |
Week 16 |
6/12 |
Youth culture, subculture, the local and the global in Taiwan |
Week 17 |
6/19 |
NO CLASS |
Week 18 |
6/26 |
Epilogue: new trends in Taiwanese film |