FILOLOGIA CINESE E CULTURA CINESE CONTEMPORANEA

The course is designed to provide a satisfactory and thorough knowledge of the cultural production in China, in the field of poetry, art and music, from the end of the Cultural Revolution to the beginning of the 21st century.

The course will alternate frontal and interactive lessons integrating multimedia materials.

• The notion and meaning of "art" in China: from Yan'an to the campaign against spiritual pollution and gray:

1) Art and culture in China: definition and mission (Yan'an talks and analysis of the film East is Red)

• The artist-intellectual in China: definition, prerogatives and implications:

8) The Stars group, the Democracy Wall and the first artistic avant-garde in China.

• The new Chinese documentary: Wu Wenguang and the aesthetics of "xianchang" 现场:

9) The "New Wave documentary movement" and analysis of Wu Wenguang's work from 1989 up to now 10) Bumming projection in Beijing (1991) and Dancing With Farm Workers (2001)

11) Documentary aesthetics and realism in the Chinese directors of the sixth generation

• Dissidents and Rock Music: Cui Jian and Chinese Punks:

12) Cui Jian and Chinese rock between parody and alienation 13) Projection and discussion on Beijing Bastards (1993) by Zhang Yuan

• Zhang Yuan: evolution of his style and filmography:

14) Evolution of Zhang Yuan's work and the case of East Palace West Palace, the first film to explicitly treat homosexuality in China 15) Chinese TV series and the great success of A Beijinger in New York (1993)

16) From rags to riches: the East Village and the ascending parable of Beijing artists​

17) Chinese contemporary theatre: an overview and its protagonists

18) Mou Sen e Meng Jinghui: projection of Chicken Poets

19) Xu Bing's artistic practice and the non-existing characters of the 天书, "Ghost Pounding the Wall" and "English calligraphy"

20) Cai Quoqiang, an "international" Chinese artist: gunpowder and the "Chinese symbol"

• Chinese photography:

21) History of Chinese photography part I 22) History of Chinese photography part II

• Multimedia art in China:

23) A historical overveiw of Chinese media art: evolution and protagonists 24) Chinese videoart and the 八零后 balinghou generation: some cases-study

• Environmental awareness in documentary, fiction and on the web platforms:

25) Grassroot information from the web and returning to the web: the video-inquiry Under the Dome (2015) by Chai Jing 26) Projection of the documentary Behemot (2015) by Zhao Liang

27) Hong Kong Film and the "culture of disappearance" as emerged before the handover (1997)

1. C. Pozzana A. Russo, Nuovi Poeti Cinesi, Einaudi, 1997
2. G. Barmè, J. Minford, Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Coscience, Hill & Wang, 1988.
3. G. Barmè, In the Red, On Contemporary Chinese Culture, Columbie University Press, 1999.
4. C. Berry, L. Xinyu, and L. Rofel, The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement, Hong Kong University Press, 2010.
5. D. Jones, F. Salviati, M. Costantino, Arte Contemporanea Cinese, Electa, 2006
6. Y. Xiao, China in the Mix: Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture in the Age of Globalization, University Press of Mississippi, 2017

Lecture notes and various materials provided by the Professor.