Asian Film comparison

    countries:as below:

    Cape No 7
    Cave of the Yellow Dog-mongolia
    DEPARTURES-Japan
    Floating Lives
    Laddaland
    Simple Life
    Monsoon Wedding-India
    Sunny- Korea
    Sword of Desperation
    The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros- Philiphine
    The Flowers of War- China
    The Old Garden
    The White Silk Dress
    Woman in the Septic Tank-Philiphine
    Wonderful Town.Thai
    You Are the Apple of my Eye
    The questions that you can pick are:

    1. One function of several Asian national cinemas is to deal with traumatic memories
    of political and/or military terror, and by depicting a “post-traumatic” identity to
    help viewers remember what is too painful to recuperate. Examine the significance
    of trauma in two films.
    2. A common concern in contemporary films from Asia is that masculinity is in
    crisis. Male characters are frequently dysfunctional, unable to communicate,
    lacking any direction. To what extent do contemporary films use this crisis to
    imagine a functional male?7
    3. The new woman in Asian cinema may be depicted as struggling between
    autonomy and subordination. The situation of such female characters may further
    suggest that they are used as an allegory of nation. Discuss two examples where
    female and national images coincide.
    4. Economic culture and family values in East and Southeast Asian films are often
    represented in Confucian terms. How does this impact upon the social values
    which underpin these films?
    5. “Stories about the past, with their inevitable depictions of psychological trauma,
    enable a complex representation of political and historical issues.” How well is this
    supported by your study of two films from different Asian national cinemas?
    6. Most Asian countries are, in some sense, postcolonial nation-states, and their
    history is apt to produce everyday lives regulated by the enduring habits and
    assumptions of colonialism. Examine two films which reflect on postcolonial
    experience, and explore how these films show the impact of colonial histories
    upon contemporary society. In your answer, focus on social regulation and
    normalization with regard to one or two of race, class, gender or religion.
    7. Modernity?s characteristic mode is ephemerality (here today gone tomorrow,
    nothing lasts nothing matters), the ceaselessly replacing of shifting social
    practices: in what ways do contemporary Asian films use tradition to resist
    ephemerality?
    8. Film production in the Asian region is increasingly transnational. Can any
    particular film still be understood within its own terms of national reference, or
    must we now view all films against the cinemas of other countries and thus in
    transnational contexts? What differences in understanding are indicated by these
    opposed possibilities?
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