Exploring East Asian Films
From 2002 through 2009, the Center for East Asian Studies sponsored weekly film screenings, programmed by PhD students at the University of Chicago and arranged around various themes in East Asian cinema. Browse through the topics below to learn more. All of the films below are in the collection of the East Asian film library at CEAS, which is available to all University of Chicago faculty, staff, and students. Educators in the Midwest are also eligible to become film library users. Contact Sarah Arehart for more information.
Japanese Cinema
Mobsters, Monsters and Swords!
A Bright Future: Japanese Cinema and the New, New Youth Generation
Cinema as/of History in/of Japan: Representing the Past in the Present in Japanese Cinema
Contemporary Ethnographic and Documentary Films on Japan
Nuclear Radiation and Hibakusha
Recent Cinema in Japan: The New Wave of the Nineties
Japanese Civilization: Perspectives in Film
Science Fiction in Japanese Film: Monsters, Mutants and Machines
Chinese Cinema
Transformation, Translocation and Transgression: Contemporary Chinese Art Cinema After 2000
Early Chinese Cinema: Stars in Revolution
Body, Technology, Allegory : Chinese Martial Arts Cinema, 1965-2005
Cinematic Perspectives on Chinese History and Civilization
Recent Chinese Cinema: The New Formalism
Chinese History: Perspectives in Film
Korean Cinema
The Family and Two Golden Ages of South Korean Cinema
Korean Cinema 2006: Power of Variety
Korean Romance with and Against Cruelty
Reviving the Past: the Cinematic Imagination of Contemporary Korean Films
A Decade of South Korean Films: 1993 - 2003
Korean Civilization: Perspectives in Film
