Close reading paper

The essay requirements are as shown in the attachment.

Before you begin writing, please send me:

1. The text you choose
2. The specific passage / scene / detail you want to analyze
3. The quotations you plan to use

Once you tell me what you want to cite, I will send you the relevant content.

Chapter 1:

Media and Modern China

W 1/21

Introduction: Beijing in the 1860s A Picture Story

F 1/23

Colonial Photography

reading: Susan Sontag, On Photography, 3-26

John Thomson, Introduction to Illustrations of China and its People

M 1/26

Projections inside the Iron House

reading: Lu Xun, Preface to the Outcry

W 1/28

Seeing Double: Lu Xun Goes to the Movies

reading: Lu Xun, On Photography and Related Matters

Lessons from the Movies

Chapter 2:

Media and Modernity

F 1/30

His Masters Voice: Colonial Phonography

reading: A.F. Jones, The Gramophone in China

listening: Anonymous Cantonese Orchestra, “Open the Doors; Laughing

Foreigners; Mei Lanfang, “Spring in the Jade Palace; Li Minghui,

Drizzle

M 2/2

Modern Soundscapes

reading: R. Murray Schafer, The Soundscape, 3-28; 43-99; 271-275.

W 2/4

Affective Media and the Dispensation of the Senses

reading: Zhou Shoujuan, The Phonograph Record

F 2/6

Cinema, Modernity, Media

reading: Ben Singer, Melodrama and Modernity, 17-35

Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

M 2/9

Machinic Modernity

film viewing: Laborers Love

reading: Henri Bergson, Laughter, ch.1

Christopher Rea, Laborers LoveChapter 3: Cinema and Popular Music in Colonial Shanghai

W 2/11

The Chinese Dream Factory

reading: Yale Film Analysis On-line Tutorial: https://filmanalysis.yale.edu/

Miriam Hansen, Fallen Women, Rising Stars, New Horizons: Shanghai Silent

Film as Vernacular Modernism

F 2/13

Street Angel: Politics and Popular Culture in the 1930s

film viewing: Street Angel

reading: Christopher Rea, Street Angels

listening: Wang Meiyu, Weepy; Zhou Xuan, Song of the Seasons and Sing

song Girl at the Ends of the Earth; Nie Er, The Sing-song Girl under the Iron

Hoof, The Song of the Great Road, and March of the Volunteers

M 2/16

Holiday: No Class

W 2/18

The Chinese Jazz Age

reading: Mu Shiying, Five in a Nightclub

A.F. Jones Black Internationale: Notes on the Chinese Jazz Age

listening: Wang Renmei, Express Train; Zhou Xuan, Express Train; Duke

Ellington and his Orchestra, Daybreak Express; Su Mada with the Tang Qiaosi

Orchestra, San Francisco

F 2/20

Wartime Soundscapes

reading: Eileen Chang, Bugle Music from the Night Barracks, On Music

listening: Yao Lee, Were Separated by Myriad Mountains, Rose, Rose, I Love

You; Gong Qiuxia, Roses Blooming Everywhere; Zhou Xuan, When Will You

Return?; Li Xianglan, Night Blossoms; Bai Guang, Im Waiting for You to

Come Back; Zhou Xuan, Shanghai at Night

M 2/23

The War After the War: Spring in a Small Town

film: Spring in a Small Town

reading: C. Fitzgerald, Spring in a Small Town: Gazing at the Ruins

listening: Yao Lee and Yao Min, Congratulations; Yao Lee, I Dont Want You