This seminar, led by Dai Jinhua, will examine the film text of Still Life in order to discuss the realist paradoxes of China’s destruction and construction, submersion and emergence, in the midst of rapid economic development. It will also address the main theme of the quest, as found in the film, to further address the immediate predicaments that reappear in Chinese culture.
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Note: Film will be screened on Thursday, April 8 at the Townsend Center.
Dai Jinhua is the director of the Center for Film Studies and Cultural Studies at Beijing University, and the foremost feminist, “New Left” cultural critic in China. Her publications include:Gendering China (Xingbie hongguo) (2006.) This spring she is the Townsend Resident Fellow based in the Rhetoric Department.