CN3304 Visualizing Sinophone Culture

Academic year

2023 to 2024 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

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SCQF level

SCQF level 9

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Availability restrictions

This module is restricted to 35 students.

Planned timetable

To be arranged

This information is given as indicative. Timetable may change at short notice depending on room availability.

Module coordinator

Dr C Weber

Dr C Weber
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Module Staff

Dr Yvonne Chi, Dr Caterina Weber

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Module description

This module explores the emergent field of ‘Sinophone’ studies through the lens of art and cinema. We will critically examine the definition of the Sinophone as the study of Sinitic-language cultures outside and on the ‘margins’ of China, including communities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and other overseas diasporic sites, as well as non-Han groups within the borders of mainland China. Although visual art and cinema provide the primary focus and unifying thread of the module, indigenous performing arts genres, commercial blockbusters, avant-garde theatre, and intermedial experiments involving performance, music, and video will also be explored in order to gain a more comprehensive picture of the multiple aesthetic discourses at play in the ‘Sinophone’.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

ENTRY TO HONOURS IN CHINESE STUDIES, OR EQUIVALENT LEVEL OF CHINESE LANGUAGE COMPETENCE

Assessment pattern

Exam = 50%, Coursework = 50%

Re-assessment

50% Coursework, 50% Written Examination

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1.5 hours

Scheduled learning hours

15

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

135

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • The student will gain a comprehensive knowledge of the critical debates, key trends, and genres in Chinese-language cinema, visual art and performance culture
  • The student will be able to read screenplays, artists’ statements, reviews, critical essays and other relevant texts in simplified and traditional Chinese and translate them into English
  • The student will understand different theoretical approaches and critical methods in visual culture and film studies
  • The student will be able to use the acquired theoretical approaches to analyse and interpret a range of artworks and cinematic texts