課程介紹
Representation of violence is essential in world-wide gangster films. It provides the audience sensational stimulation through audio-visual spectacles, and serves to keep the audience’s attention and enjoyment. But it is also a medium of reflecting or reacting to the quandaries of its social environment. With the emphases on masculinity, representation of violence reveals the naked truth of struggles over sexual politics, gangster convention, ethnic conflicts and survival from the bottom echelon in its social context. This course will investigate gangster films from various societies to, on the one hand, compare different aesthetics of violence, and on the other, to induce the students to reflect on the meaning and power relationship behind violence and further explore the hidden anxieties and aspiration within different social contexts from the execution and representation of violence.
教科書:
Botting, Fred and Scott Wilson. Tarantinian Ethics. London: Sage, 2001.
Browne, Nick. Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Trilogy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Cashmore, Ellis. Martin Scorsese’s America. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009.
Gerow, Aaron. Kitano Takeshi. London: BFI, 2007.
Munby, Jonathan. Public Enemies, Public Heros: Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Baker, Aaron, Juliann Vitullo. Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Kendrick, James. Film Violence. London: Wall Flower, 2009.
McKinney, Devin. ‘Violence: The Strong and the Weak’, Screening Violence ed. by Stephen Prince. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Prince, Stephen. Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.
Prince, Stephen. ‘The Aesthetics of Slow-Motion Violence in the films of Sam Peckinpah’, Screening Violence. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Prince, Stephen. Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema 1930-1968. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
Schilling, Mark. Yakuza Movie Book. Berkeley: Stone Bridge, 2003.
Schrader, Paul. ‘Yakuza-eiga: A Primer’, Gangster Film Reader ed. by Alain Silver & James Ursini. New Jersey: Limelight Editions, 2007.
Silver, Alain. ‘The Gangster and Film Noir: Themes and Style’, Gangster Film Reader ed. by Alain Silver & James Ursini. New Jersey: Limelight Editions, 2007.
Symonds, Gwyn. The Aesthetics of Violence in Contemporary Media. London: Continuum, 2008.
Browne, Nick. Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Trilogy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Cashmore, Ellis. Martin Scorsese’s America. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009.
Gerow, Aaron. Kitano Takeshi. London: BFI, 2007.
Munby, Jonathan. Public Enemies, Public Heros: Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Baker, Aaron, Juliann Vitullo. Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Kendrick, James. Film Violence. London: Wall Flower, 2009.
McKinney, Devin. ‘Violence: The Strong and the Weak’, Screening Violence ed. by Stephen Prince. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Prince, Stephen. Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.
Prince, Stephen. ‘The Aesthetics of Slow-Motion Violence in the films of Sam Peckinpah’, Screening Violence. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Prince, Stephen. Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema 1930-1968. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
Schilling, Mark. Yakuza Movie Book. Berkeley: Stone Bridge, 2003.
Schrader, Paul. ‘Yakuza-eiga: A Primer’, Gangster Film Reader ed. by Alain Silver & James Ursini. New Jersey: Limelight Editions, 2007.
Silver, Alain. ‘The Gangster and Film Noir: Themes and Style’, Gangster Film Reader ed. by Alain Silver & James Ursini. New Jersey: Limelight Editions, 2007.
Symonds, Gwyn. The Aesthetics of Violence in Contemporary Media. London: Continuum, 2008.
教學進度:
Introduction to gangster film and cinematic violence?
American I: Immigrants & Ethnicity
American II: Immigrants
South Korean: Modernity Crisis
Indonesia: Masterful Martial Art
Brazilian: Cruel Reality
American I: Immigrants & Ethnicity
American II: Immigrants
South Korean: Modernity Crisis
Indonesia: Masterful Martial Art
Brazilian: Cruel Reality
British: Sarcasm
Shot Sequence Analysis
One-on-One Tutorial
Shot Sequence Analysis
One-on-One Tutorial
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