Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	the founding myth of cinema, or the “train effect”
2	Modernity and the city film:Berlin
3	? To define auteurism? To understand the French New Wave in the context of technological innovation, generational conflicts, and aesthetic concerns? To advance a coherent reading of a film based on the depiction of urban spaces and the characters’ movement through the city
4	? To understand the definitions of film noir ? To position film noir in the urban post-Second World War context of theUnited States
5	Discussion for three important genres of city films that follow in historical sequence, each associated with a particular city.
6	MIDTERM EXAM
7	To understand the history of Hong Kong in relationship to China and Great Britain To situate the development of the Hong Kong film industry in that history
8	To understand the two different traditions and functions of the trope of the ruin To describe rubble films and engage with the moral, historical, and political questions they raise
9	? To be able to analyze the modernist vision of design and urban planning in early science fiction? To account for the shifts of the portrait of the city in films that imagine the future throughout the twentieth century
10	Discussion for the socio-historical themes of urban studies and creative industries over the portrayal of war-torn and divided cities.
11	? To gain insight into sociologically and historically based definitions of racial ghettos? To comprehend the different ways in which studios and independent filmmakers capture the urban ghetto and enclave on film
12	? To understand the changing relationship of sexuality and the city ? To conceive of sexuality as intersecting with race, class, and gender mapped onto the city
13	? Understand the dynamics of globalization ? Comprehend the changes of cities in the context of globalization, particularly in regard to global networks and the changing meaning of topography ? Examine the characteristics of funding, production, distributions, themes, and narratives in transnational cinema ? Be aware of thematic clusters of transnational cinema, such as migration, illegal labor, sex traffic, transnational love stories
14	Discussion for the question of identity and place in a global world, moving from the portrayal of ghettos and barrios to the city with the representation of the global city in transnational cinematic practices.

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