| 國立中興大學教學大綱 |
| 課程名稱 | (中) 生態環境電影專題(9008) | ||||||||
| (Eng.) Seminar on Eco-cinema | |||||||||
| 開課單位 | 跨文化學程 | ||||||||
| 課程類別 | 選修 | 學分 | 3 | 授課教師 | 朱惠足 等 | ||||
| 選課單位 | 跨文化學程 / 博士班 | 授課使用語言 | 英文 | 英文/EMI | N | 開課學期 | 1082 | ||
| 課程簡述 | As Sheldon H. Lu defines it, "Eco-cinema is cinema with an ecological consciousness. It articulates the relationship of human begins to the physical environment, earth, nature, and animals from a biocentirc, non-anthropocentric point of view." Taking this definition as the starting point, this course examines selected films from Taiwan and China that thematize environmental or ecological Issues. Students will also learn how a keen eco-consciousness impact on our interpretive strategy and understanding of films. | ||||||||
| 先修課程名稱 | 課程含自主學習 | N | |||||||
| 課程與核心能力關聯配比(%) | 課程目標之教學方法與評量方法 | ||||||||
| 課程目標 | 核心能力 | 配比(%) | 教學方法 | 評量方法 | |||||
| 1. Understand Contemporary ecological and environmental consciousness in Taiwan documentaries and films. 2. Understand the impact of ecology on humanity through the interpretive strategies of eco-cinema. |
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| 授課內容(單元名稱與內容、習作/每週授課、考試進度-共18週) | |||||||||
| Part 1: (Kuei-fen Chiu) Issues for Chinese ecocinema studies (1) Please pick one of the required readings and upload 1 question to I-learning (2) Watch the “film for discussion” in the library and upload 1 question for discussion to I-learning. (3) The 2 questions should be uploaded by 2PM on Friday (4) Mid-term report of 2500 words on an eco-film of your choice. Report due on April 30. Week 1 3/2 Topic: Introduction: issues for Chinese ecocinema studies “Introduction: Revisiting the field of Chinese ecocinema,” in Sheldon H. Lu and Haomin Gong ds., Ecology and Chinese-Language Cinema (Routledge, 2019) Watch Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from above Week 2 3/9 Topic: “Definition and Theory: What is Ecocinema?” Readings: (1) Scott MacDonald , “The Ecocinema Experience,” in Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, and Sean Cubit teds., Ecocinema Theory and Practice, New York and London: Routledge, 2013, 17-42. (2) David Ingram, “The Aesthetics and Ethics of Eco-film Criticism,” in Ecocinema Theory and Practice, 43-62. (3) Christopher Hitt, “Toward an Ecological Sublime.” New Literary History 30.3: 603-620. Film for discussion: Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from above (Chi Po-lin) Week 3 3/16 Topic: “Ecodocumentary Making in Taiwan” Readings: (1) Kuei-fen Chiu, “Mapping Taiwanese Ecodocumentary Landscape: Politics of Aesthetics and Environmental Ethics in Taiwanese Ecodocumentaries ” (2) Michael Hsiao, “Environmental Movements in Taiwan,” in Asia’s Environmental Movements: Comparative Perspectives. 1999, 31-54 (3) Robert Weller, “Discovering Nature,” in Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan, 2006. Film for discussion: Nimbus Week 4 3/23 Topic: “Indigenous culture and Taiwanese ecodumentaries” Readings: (1) Rachel Stein, “Disposable Bodies: Biocolonialism in the Constant Gardener and Dirty Pretty Things,” in Framing the World: Exploration in Ecocriticism and Film, 2010, 101-115. (2) Caskey Russell, “Wild Madness: The Makah Whale Hunt and Its Aftermath,” in Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives, 2010, 157-176. Film for discussion: Mayaw Biho, “Children in Heaven.” Week 5 3/30 no class Week 6 4/6 Topic: “transnational ecocinema” (Kuei-fen Chiu) Readings: (1). Pietari Kaapa, “Transnational Approaches to Ecocinema: Charting an Expansive Field,” Tomy Gustafsson and Pietary Kaapa eds, Transnational Ecocinema: Film Culture in an Era of Ecological Transformation, 21-43. Film for discussion: “Dolphons Etude: Taiwan’s Choice (dir. Chien Yu-chun,2013) Reef case. Part II: (Huei-chu Chu) Text Book: Eva Horn, Hannes Bergthaller. 2020. The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities. Routledge. Class Structure Students have to submit a question sheet with five questions about the pre-class readings when they come to the class. The class begins with an oral presentation by a student and then open to discussions. Week 7 4/13 Ch.1 Introduction, Ch.12 Conclusion Watch:奇蹟背後 Week 8 4/20 Ch.2 Definitions, Ch.3 Genealogies Week 9 4/27 Ch.4 Nature and culture Watch:噤聲三角 Keywords: Week 10 5/4 environmental ethics (Kuei-fen Chiu) (1) “environmental ethics”: Holmes Rolston III, “Feeding People versus Saving Nature?” in Environmental Ethics: an Anthology, 451-462. (2) “environmental ethics” Holmes Rolston III “Value in Nature and the Nature of Value, In Environmental Ethics: an Anthology, 143-153. Week 11 5/11 Ch.5 The Anthropos Watch: Kanakanavu 的守候 Week 12 5/18 Ch.6 Politics Watch:沈沒之島 Week 13 5/25 Ch.7 Aesthetics Week 14 6/1 Ch.8 Biopolitics, Ch.9 Energy Watch:脫口罩找藍天 Week 15 6/8 Ch.10 Scales I: The planetary Week 16 6/15 Ch.11 Scales II: Deep time Watch: 刪海經 Week 17 6/22 Transnational Ecocinema on Nuclear Issues (Hui-Chu Chu) Lynch, Lisa. “’We Don’t Wanna be Radiated’: Documentary Film and the Evolving Rhetoric of Nuclear Energy Activism.” American Literature 86.3 (September 2014). Watch:原來我們不核 Week 18 6/29 End-Term paper discussion. |
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| Class participation and oral reports: 50% Final paper: 50% |
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| 教科書＆參考書目(書名、作者、書局、代理商、說明) | |||||||||
| Adrian Ivakhiv, Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2013). | |||||||||
| 課程教材（教師個人網址請列在本校內之網址） | |||||||||
| 課程輔導時間 | |||||||||
| Fri. 10-12am | |||||||||
| 聯合國全球永續發展目標 | |||||||||
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| 請尊重智慧財產權及性別平等意識，不得非法影印他人著作。 | |
| 更新日期 西元年/月/日：無 | 列印日期 西元年/月/日：2025 / 2 / 25 |
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