Course Schedule
Week 1:
Film: Pushing Hands 1992
Readings: Another Wise, Gentle Patriarch
East Asian Cinema
The Role of the Director in film making.
Ang Lee Biography Parts1-6
Directing Styles
Parallel Movies: Big Night; Brick Lane
Week 2:
Film: The Wedding Banquet 1993
Slaying the Dragon: Stereotypes of Asians In Hollywood Movies
Readings: Film Theory
A Union of Convenience Across a Cultural Divide
Film Text and Approaches
Parallel Movies: My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Monsoon Wedding,
Fools Rush In
Week 3
Film: Eat, Drink, Man, Woman 1994
Readings: Avoiding Basic Human Desires, or Trying To
Ang Lee: A Recipe for Success
Formalist Theory of Film
Parallel Movies: Tortilla Soup Chocolat
Week 4:
Film: Sense and Sensibility 1995
Readings: In Mannerly Search of Marriageable Men
Bollywood
Jane Austen on Film: Or How to Make a Hit
Structuralist Film Theory
Parallel Movie: Bride and Prejudice
Week 5:
Film: The Ice Storm 1997
Readings:The Ice Storm
The Ice Storm: Baby, It's Cold Inside
Interview With Ang Lee on Ice Storm
Film Authorship and Auteur Theory
Parallel Movie: American Beauty, Mi Familia
A Film Critic's Review
Mid-Term Review
Week 6:
Ride With the Devil 1999
Readings: Far From Gettysburg, A Heartland Torn Apart
Music and Sound in Film
Music Roles
Skills, Responsibilities of Music Composer
Parllel Movie: Cold Mountain,The Patriot
Week 7:
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 2000
Readings:Crouching Tiger, Hidden Truths in the Court of a King Who Would Be Emperor
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Making women warriors, a transnational reading of Asian female action heroes
Interview With Ang Lee on Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Martial Arts Cinema
Parallel Movie: Enter the Dragon Hero Ying Xiong, Kung Fu Panda, Rumble in the Bronx
Week 8
The Hulk 2003
Readings: Hulk Smash Puny Apparatus? Perceiving a Comic Book Cinema in Ang Lee's Hulk
Interview With Ang Lee on The Hulk
Elements of Classical Mythology in Ang Lee's Hulk
Parallel Movie: Spiderman, Dark Knight, Superman, The Green Hornet,
Week 9
Brokeback Mountain 2005
Readings: Hello Cowboy:Ang Lee's Award-winning Gay Western
The Western
Homosexuality in Film
Interview With Ang Lee on Brokeback Mountain
Parallel Movie: The Bird Cage, In and Out
Week 10
Final Review
Final Project Presentations Part 1
Final Project Presentations Part 1