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Session 22—Fri, March 9: Chinese (Beijing) film: House of Flying Daggers (screening and discussion), Fourth session

Topics for this session

❖ Recent cinema from China (Beijing): House of Flying Daggers, fourth session of five

Overall, persistent topics for this film:
❖ Deception's role in romantic narratives
❖ (Confucian) loyalty (zhong) / faithfulness (xin) vs. individual desire (Confucian ren? modern liberties?)

Today:
❖ What is faithfulness? What is love?
❖ Comparisons: How "Chinese" is this film? How "Western" is this film?
❖ Comparisons: Faithfulness in Flying Daggers and Chunhyang.

Screening details

❖ Recent cinema from China (Beijing): House of Flying Daggers, first session of five

Overall, persistent topics for this film:
❖ Deception's role in romantic narratives
❖ (Confucian) loyalty (zhong) / faithfulness (xin) vs. individual desire (Confucian ren? modern liberties?)

Today:
❖ "Layering" (related to deception but that aspect not pursued here)— multiple loyalties, multiple loves
❖ Duty (yi) to the group (so, issues of loyalty, zhong) / faithfulness to a lover (xin) vs. individual desire: seduction in the name of duty, games becoming difficult to control realities

Required—to be completed for today's session

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House of Flying Daggers: fourth session questions (scene summaries are optional)

Texts, multimedia notes, links*

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Other*

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*THOUGHTS: Reading before class probably helps follow session content, reading afterwards might help consolidate notes, revisiting for tests is recommended. Content might be added before class or anytime up until about 24 hours ahead of a midterm.

*TEXTS, MULTIMEDIA NOTES, LINKS: If I have read from something, shown something or presented audio that is not elsewhere mentioned, I usually include that information here for the curious, sometime after the class (since I often make last-minute decisions about including something). It might take a while and sometimes I forget. You can email me.

*OTHER: When possible I note here names, places, and other details that I have mentioned in a lecture that would otherwise not be accessible in the assigned materials or easily located on your own. As with "TEXTS ..." this is usually sometime after class and, again, I might not be able to get around to doing it.

Summer 2012 links to regular academic year session pages

This summer I am simply stacking two regular year 50-minute sessions into one 110 minute summer session, mostly. Since there are more teaching minutes in the summer, there are some open, unschedule sessions. What we do for those times will be noted in the "Thoughts" section of the previous session page. So, for example, Sess07 will also have notes on it as to what we do for the second half of our class that day.

Course schedule / outline

Mon, May 21: Sess01, Sess02
Tues, May 22: Sess03
Wed, May 23: Sess04, Sess05
Thur, May 24: Sess06, Sess07
Mon, May 28: No class
Tues, May 29: Sess08, open
Wed, May 30: Sess09, Sess10
Thur, May 31: Sess11, Sess12
Mon, June 4: Sess13, Sess14
Tues, June 5: open, Sess15
Wed, June 6: Sess16, Sess17
Thur, June 7: Sess19, Sess20
Mon, June 11: Sess18, Sess21
Tues, June 12: Sess22, Sess23
Wed, June 13: Sess24, Sess25
Thur, June 14: Sess26, Sess27
Mon, June 18: Sess28, Sess29
Tues, June 19: Sess30, Sess31
Wed, June 20: Sess32, Sess33
Thur, June 21: Sess34, Sess35
Mon, June 25: Sess36, Sess37
Tues, June 26: Sess38, Sess39
Wed, June 27: open, Sess40
Thur, June 28: Free discussion, JES10 completion opportunity