Session 25: Chinese (Hong Kong) film: 2046 (screening then discussion), Second session

Topics for this session

❖ Recent cinema from China (Hong Kong): 2046, second session of five

Overall, persistent topics for this film:

• Characteristics, qualities, methods, completedness and reliability of communication between lovers
• Layering: role of memories in romance
• Layering: blending of boundaries of individuals (status of individual)
• Layering: Non-linearity (narrative structure, experience of the presence as tied to the past and future, especially the past—memories).
• Comparisons: Dreams in 2046 and Genji.
• Comparisons: Money in 2046 and Story of the Stone.

Possible topics for this session:

• Layering: role of memories in romance
• Role in the romantic narrative of gift and money exchange.
• Context: camera angles / peeking

Thoughts*

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Screening details

DVD menu scenes 8-14 (0:34:00-1:03:34, elapsed time 0:30)

The entire film is screened in class. If you have missed a class session, the movie is available as follows:

• Netflix: DVD
• Media Resources Center (Moffitt): DVD 4876

Required—to be completed for today's session

Access through sidebar tab FILM MODULES:

✓ 2046: Second session questions (scene summaries 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.