ASIAN 1107

FWS: Remaking Japan

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

Hollywood remakes, once an occasional curiosity, have become a genre in and of itself. Not only do they allow for Anglophone filmgoers to experience those same stories transplanted into a form to which they can more readily relate, but they also spell profits and merchandising opportunities for production companies attempting at once to define and cater to a thriving niche market - to say nothing of Hollywood's recapitulations of its own classics, updated to reflect changing standards in technique, technology, and taste. Japanese films constitute a sizable yield of the Hollywood remaking machine, and as such deserve closer attention regarding the themes and trends to which they attend. Remaking Japan is designed to engender a deeper, more critical understanding of the issues involved in the art of remaking in the broader sense, and more specifically in the case of Japanese-American creative exchange, and uses that concept as the foundation for an intensive journey through interpretive, descriptive, and critical writing. Remaking Japan draws upon the medium of film to strengthen notions about the visual imagination of words, all the while engendering cross-cultural awareness of one of the world's largest market-driven industries.

When Offered Spring.

Satisfies Requirement First-Year Writing Seminar.

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