Semester	Spring Semester, 2025
Department	General Education Courses in Humanities
Course Name	Contemporary Taiwan Cinema, Culture and Society
Instructor	LIN TING-YING
Credit	3.0
Course Type	Selectively
Prerequisite

Course Objective

Course Description

Course Schedule

Week	Topic	Content and Reading Assignment	Teaching Activities and Homework	Student workload expectation
Week	Topic	Content and Reading Assignment	Teaching Activities and Homework	In-class Hours	Outside-of-class Hours
1	Introduction	Introduction to the Course	Lecture and Discussion	3	5
2	Holiday	National Holiday	No Class
3	Development and Social Changes I	Hou Hsiao-hsien: The Boys from Fengkuei (1983)	Lecture and Discussion	3	5
4	Development and Social Changes II	Introduction to Hou Hsiao-hsien Student Small Group Weekly Presentation 1. 2	Lecture, Discussion and Presentation	3	5
5	Women Narratives and Female Agency I	Edward Yang: That Day, on the Beach (1983)	Lecture and Discussion	3	5
6	Women Narratives and Female Agency II	Introduction to Edward Yang Student Small Group Weekly Presentation 3. 4	Lecture, Discussion and Presentation	3	5
7	Holiday	National Holiday	No Class
8	Family Structure and Contemporary Urban Culture I	Ang Lee: Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)	Lecture and Discussion	3	5
9	Family Structure and Contemporary Urban Culture II	Introduction to Ang Lee Student Small Group Weekly Presentation 5. 6	Lecture, Discussion and Presentation	3	5
10	Mid-term Presentation	Final Project Proposal	Presentation	3	5
11	Gender and LGBTQ rights I	Chih-yen Yee: Blue Gate Crossing (2002)	Lecture and Discussion	3	5
12	Gender and LGBTQ rights II	Introduction to LGBTQ-related films in Taiwan cinema Student Small Group Weekly Presentation 7. 8	Lecture, Discussion and Presentation	3	5
13	Social Criticism and Activism I	Lekal Sumi and Cheng Yu-Chieh: Wawa No Cidal (2015)	Lecture and Discussion	3	5
14	Social Criticism and Activism II	Introduction to activism-related films in Taiwan cinema Student Small Group Weekly Presentation 9. 10	Lecture, Discussion and Presentation	3	5
15	Final Project Week I	Final Project Presentations I	Presentation	3	5
16	Final Project Week II	Final Project Presentations II	Presentation	3	5
17	Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week I	Capstone self-learning	Self-learning Session	3	5
18	Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week II	Capstone self-learning	Self-learning Session	3	5

Teaching Methods

Teaching Assistant

If you need to take sick leave, please email the Teaching Assistant: 113161011@g.nccu.edu.tw

Requirement/Grading

1. Class Participation and Discussion (including Attendance): 30%

2. Student Small Group Weekly Presentation: 30%

3. Final Group Project: 40%

Textbook & Reference

1. Hong, Guo-juin. Taiwan Cinema: A Contested Nation on Screen. Palgrave MacMillan, 2011.

2. Darrell William Davis and Ru-shou Robert Chen (eds). Cinema Taiwan: Politics, Popularity and State of the Arts. Routledge, 2007.

3. Chris Berry and Feii Lu (eds). Island on the Edge: Taiwan New Cinema and After. Hong Kong University Press, 2005.

4. Lim, Song Hwee. Taiwan Cinema as Soft Power: Authorship, Transnationality, Historiography. Oxford University Press, 2022.

5. Wilson, Flannery. New Taiwanese Cinema in Focus: Moving Within and Beyond the Frame. Edinburgh University Press, 2015.

6. Chiu, Kuei-fen, Ming-yeh Rawnsley, and Gary Rawnsley (eds). Taiwan Cinema: International Reception and Social Change. Routledge, 2017.

7. Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis, and Wenchi Lin (eds). Thirty-two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema. University of Michigan Press, 2022.

8. Bi-yu Chang and Pei-yin Lin (eds). Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context: Being and Becoming. Routledge, 2019.

9. Paul G. Pickowicz and Yingjin Zhang (eds). Locating Taiwan Cinema in the Twenty-First Century. Cambria, 2020.

10. Christopher Brown. Mapping Taiwanese Cinema 2008-20: Environments, Poetics, Practice. Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

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