週次 |
授課內容 |
第1週 |
Introduction |
第2週 |
Geography, visuality, and imperialism
James Ryan, Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire
John Thompson, Samuel Bourne (Travel photography) |
第3週 |
Representing the planet
Tiago de Luca, Planetary Cinema |
第4週 |
Visualizing extraction
Goodyear short film, ”Conquering the Jungle” (1930)
Selected clips from colonial archives |
第5週 |
Afterimages of extraction
Nadine Chan, Rainforest Hermeneutics in the Military Training Film
Sim Chi Yin, One Day We’ll Understand (2015-present) |
第6週 |
Visualizing extraction
Student choice of texts |
第7週 |
Midterm break and assignment |
第8週 |
Recap week |
第9週 |
Science fiction and the planetary
Denis Villeneuve, Dune (2021) |
第10週 |
Landscape and the ”resource genre”
Mati Diop, Atlantics (2019) |
第11週 |
Waste ecologies
Wang Jiuliang, Plastic China (2016) |
第12週 |
Seeing landscape
Chi Po-lin, Beyond Beauty - Taiwan from Above (2013) |
第13週 |
Special lecture |
第14週 |
Sensory ethnography and forms of life
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, Leviathan (2012) |
第15週 |
Planetary blockbusters
Michael Mann, Blackhat (2015) |
第16週 |
Student presentations |
第17週 |
Final papers due |
第18週 |
Final papers due |