Coming back with movie salon on Dec 3rd

[Sabrina Ma]

We have been silent for almost a month, now, we are back with a salon about movies. 

Hope this will be a good cheer up and relaxation for a hard working month!

Roger will be our guest, let's see what he's going to share with us.

NAME:  ROGER MARTIN

 

Up until July 2010, I was a Film Studies teacher in England, now I am a postgraduate student at XMU studying for an MA in Chinese Culture.

 

TOPIC: The Coming of Age of Chinese Cinema

 

OUTLINE:  I will begin by outlining the arrival of cinema in China at the end of the 19^th century.  At this time, cinema, such as it was then, was entirely dependent upon the West for technology and expertise. By the 1920s, however, Chinese cinema had found it is own voice and was producing what we would now regard as feature-length films, rather than the shorts that were previously made. Chinese cinema matured and becomes ‘Chinese’ (a notion that itself needs ‘unpacking’ and discussing) at about the time of the 4^th May Movement. Just about everything that underpinned the 4^th May in terms of ideas, social change and cultural aspirations were part of the new medium of cinema. The filmmakers and their films of this period led directly to the ‘golden age’ of Chinese cinema of the 1930s. Underpinning this is the slippery notion of national cinema and specifically what is meant by Chinese cinema.  What is a ‘Chinese film’ and what relevance does such a concept has today in an era of the large-scale, internationally produced and funded film?

Last, it's still the same time and the same place as  usual, this Saturday, Dec 3rd, 7pm at the second floor of the library.

Really eager to meet you guys!