NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 暴力、文化再現與幫派電影(1912)
(Eng.) Violence, Cultural Representation and Gangster Film
Offering Dept College of Liberal Arts
Course Type Required Credits 1 Teacher LIAO,YING-CHIH
Department Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate Language English Semester 2024-FALL
Course Description Representation of violence is essential in world-wide gangster films. It provides the audience sensational stimulation through audio-visual spectacles, and serves to keep the audience’s attention and enjoyment. But it is also a medium of reflecting or reacting to the quandaries of its social environment. With the emphases on masculinity, representation of violence reveals the naked truth of struggles over sexual politics, gangster convention, ethnic conflicts and survival from the bottom echelon in its social context. This course will investigate two gangster films from different social and cultural contexts to, on the one hand, analyze the connotations of violence, and on the other, to induce the students to reflect on the meaning and power relationship behind violence and further explore the hidden anxieties and aspiration within different social contexts from the vicious struggles of gangsterdom.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course Y
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
1. Understand the hidden anxieties over identity and survival of gangster films
2. Cultural representations through violence and gangster films
3. Reflect on complexities between violence and other cultural issues, such as masculinity and class issues…etc.
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Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Introduction
Week 2 HOLIDAY
Week 3 Violence, Cultural Representation and Gangster Film
Week 4 America: Immigrants & Ethnicity I
Week 5 America: Immigrants & Ethnicity II
Week 6 Individual, family & Society
Week 7 America: Immigrants & Ethnicity III
Week 8 Ethics and Ethnicity
Week 9 America: Immigrants & Ethnicity IV
Week 10 Aspiration and Identity
Week 11 Brazilian: Cruel Reality I
Week 12 Poverty and Vices
Week 13 Brazilian: Cruel Reality II
Week 14 Toxic Masculinities
Week 15 Brazilian: Cruel Reality III
Week 16 Ethics and Mechanism
Week 17 Final assignment writing and discussion
Week 18 Final Assignment Submission
Evaluation
Discussion 20%
Class Notes 50%
Final Assignment 30%
Textbook & other References
Browne, Nick. Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Trilogy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Baker, Aaron, Juliann Vitullo. 2001. “Screening the Italian-American Male,” in Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture, pp. 213-226. New York: Routledge.
Fordham, Geoff. 2007. “A Study in Ambiguity: The Godfather and the American Gangster Movie Tradition,” in Gangster Film Reader, edited by Alan Silver & James Ursini, pp. 165-180. New Jersey: Limelight.
Fuchs, Cynthia J. 1993. “The Buddy Politics,” in Screening the Male: Exploring
Masculinities in Hollywood Cinema, edited by Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark, pp.194-212. London: Routledge.
Larke-Walsh, George S. 2010. Screening the Mafia: Masculinity, Ethnicity and Mobsters from The Godfather to the Sopranos. Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland & Company.
McKinney, Devin. ‘Violence: The Strong and the Weak’, in Screening Violence edited by Stephen Prince. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Prince, Stephen. Screening Violence. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Symonds, Gwyn. The Aesthetics of Violence in Contemporary Media. London: Continuum, 2008.
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
iLearning
Office Hours
Tue. 17:00-18:00
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