Indicative Weekly Topics
Screening Asia, Framing Feminism
Theories of Yellow Femininity
Fanon and Spillers
Chinese-, Marxist-, Feminist- Film Theory
Stitched, Padded, and Layered Senses of Self: Pacita Abad
Orality: Yee I-Lann, Ma Qiusha
Exposure: Tanaka Atsuko
Shine: Krista Thompson
Trans: Fen-Ma Liuming, Xing Danwen
The Geopolitics of Humanism
Extreme Private Eros
Multispecies Feminism
Queer Racial Mattering
Love, Guilt, and Reparation
Suggested Reading
Anne Anlin Cheng, Ornamentalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019)
Dai Jinhua, Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics (London: Verso, 2001)
Lisa Lowe, The Intimacies of Four Continents (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015)
Krista Thompson, Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015)