FILM PANEL | Family Melodrama and Food Metaphors in Three Moments of Taiwanese Cinema
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday, October 22, 2011 | 5:00PM - 7:00PM | External Event, Innis Cafe, Innis College at the University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George) |
Description
Jing Jing Chang, “The Empire of Food and Love: Challenging the Parameters of the Woman’s Picture in Kuei-Mei, A Woman”
Jing Jing Chang is assistant professor in film studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. She completed her BA in Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto and her PhD in History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include Chinese cinemas, cold war Hong Kong, and postcolonial studies.
James Udden, “Eating Scenes in Taiwanese Cinema: A Political Aesthetic?”
James Udden is associate professor of Film Studies at the University of Gettysburg and the author of Not Man Is an Island: The Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien (2009).
Bart Testa (Moderator), “Cuisine, Community, Family Melodrama: Repetition, Communication and Reversal in Three Taiwanese Films”
Bart Testa is Senior Lecturer in the Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto.
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