This course represents part four of the Southeast Asian Cinema courses, alongside Cinema of Southeast Asia, Cinema of Thailand, and Cinema of Indonesia. The instructor has provided a course summary and list of selected readings; the complete syllabus (with readings, films, etc.) will be available closer to the start of the fall semester.

Course information | Instructor: S. O’Harrow | Thursdays 12:00 – 2:45 p.m. | 3 credits | syllabus

Anon., n.d., “South Vietnamese actress Kieu Chinh – a short bio-filmography”

Corrigan, Timothy, 1998, A Short Guide to Writing about Film –
-Ch. 3 Topics & Terms
-Ch. 4 Writing about Film

Do, Tess, 2006, “Bar girls and Street Cinderella: Women, Sex and Prostitution in Le Hoang’s Commercial films”

Doherty, Thomas, 2010, “The Death of Film Criticism”

Greene, Graham, 1955, The Quiet American

Hamilton, Annette, 2009, “Renovated: Gender and Cinema in Contemporary Vietnam”

Harris, Jack, 2005, “Nostalgia for the Countryside, directed by Dang Nhat Minh”

Nam Cao, 1941, Chí Phèo

Nam Cao, 1943, Old Hac

Ngo Phuong Lan, 2007, Modernity and Nationality in Vietnamese Cinema – Appendix I: Vietnamese Film: a brief history

Nguyen Huy Thiep, 1989?, Nostalgia for the Countryside Phillips, Richard & James Steffin, n.d., “The Quiet American as film – two views”

Westrup, Laurel, 2006, “Toward a New Canon: The Vietnamese Conflict Through Vietnamese Lenses”

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