Events
Asian Studies Film Series
April 25th, May 2nd, May 9th
Featuring three films based on the work of Nobel Prize Laureate Mo Yan
- Thursday, 25 April: “Red Sorghum/红高粱” (1987) (based on the novel)
- Thursday, 2 May: “Happy Times/幸福时光” (2000) (based on the short story “Shifu: You'll Do Anything for a Laugh/师傅越来越幽默”)
- Thursday, 9 May: “Nuan/暖” (2003) (based on the short story “The White Dog and the Swing/白狗秋千架”)
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 was awarded to Mo Yan "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
All screenings will start at
7 pm, in 600 Foster St. (Transportation Center),
basement screening room.
Readings related to the films and to Mo Yan (encouraged but not required)
Mo Yan fiction:
Red Sorghum Chapter 1
Preface to Shifu 2001
Shifu 2001
White Dog and the Swing
Interviews:
Interview with Mo Yan
Berry. Interview with director, Zhang Yimou
Secondary material:
David Wang and Michael Berry. Literary World of Mo Yan
Lu Tonglin. Red Sorghum: Limits of Transgression
Michael Duke. Mo Yan's fiction in the 1980s
Rey Chow. The Force of Surfaces- Defiance in Zhang Yimou's Films
Wang Yuejin. Red Sorghum: Mixing Memory and Desire
Xiaobin Yang. Mo Yan's The Republic of Wine
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