Ang Lee and the Art of Transnational Cinema: A Symposium
Law, Michael
Date: Friday, October 25, 2013, 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Afternoon Symposium
The Art of Transnational Cinema: A Conversation with Ang Lee and James Schamus
Press inquiries contact: Shirley Sun
Friday, October 25, 2013
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Please note these additional local events featuring Ang Lee:
Thursday October 24
Boston Asian American Film Festival (http://www.baaff.org/)
Friday October 25
Harvard Film Archive (http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/calendar/october13.html )
Saturday October 26
Wellesley College (https://www.wellesley.edu/events/node/37864)
First Panel
Scholarly Reflections on Ang Lee’s Work
Christina Klein (Boston College), "The Diasporic Dimension of Ang
Lee’s Cinema”
Jerome Silbergeld (Princeton University), “Ang Lee’s America”
Chien-hsin Tsai (University of Texas, Austin), “Ang Lee’s Taiwan”
Eugene Wang (Harvard University), “What is the Caution in Lust, Caution?”
Second Panel
A Conversation with Ang Lee and James Schamus
Eileen Cheng-yin Chow (Duke University) will engage director Ang Lee as
well as producer and screenwriter James Schamus in a conversation
that will also open up to a public Q&A.
Born in Taiwan in 1954, Ang Lee has become one of the world’s most renowned directors. His diverse films transcend national and cultural boundaries by illuminating the complexity of the human heart. A graduate of the National Taiwan College of Arts, Lee studied theatre direction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and film production at New York University. His “Father Knows Best” trilogy—Pushing Hands (1992), The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)—portray Confucian families in the modern world with humor and pathos. Lee then went to Hollywood and directed a Jane Austen adaptation Sense and Sensibility (1995), a 1970s family drama The Ice Storm (1997) and an American Civil War epic Ride with the Devil (1999). His next film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) revolutionized the wuxia genre and was the highest grossing foreign-language film ever released in America. A story about the forbidden love between two Wyoming cowboys, Brokeback Mountain (2005) became a cultural phenomenon in the U.S., whereas his adaptation of Eileen Chang’s Lust, Caution (2007) generated heated discussions throughout cultural China. Most recently for The Life of Pi (2012), Ang Lee won a second Academy Award for Best Director.
Symposium and Retrospective sponsored by CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinology, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard Film Archive, and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Harvard University, in partnership with Taipei Economic and Cultural Office.
Symposium Location: Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge
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