Journal: Fifth Generation Chinese Cinema

Reading: Yijing Zhang, “Directors, Aesthetics, Genres: Chinese Postsocialist Cinema, 1979–2010” in Wiley Blackwell Companion to Chinese Cinema, ed. Yijing Zhang. (Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2012)

Film: Yellow Earth (Huang tu di, Kaige Chen, 1984, China)

Write a 400-word journal, it should be written based on the assigned films. In the journal, you should demonstrate that 1) you have watched the film AND 2) you can articulate the main arguments of the assigned readings in relation to the film. In other words, the journal should base on your critical analysis of the film in conjunction with the assigned readings.