CTCS 200g Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Wu Yonggang, Street Prostitution, Gambling

• School: USC
• Department: Cinema and Media Studies
• Course: CTCS 200g
• Professor: Kemper Tomas

Document Summary

Cinema speaks (and whistles), or, sound and the city common theme of lms at this time: cities! urban new landscape (new modern) > many lms (goddess a little more anxious about city) (man with cam more excited about city) Goddess (shen nu) : (china; wu yonggang, 1934) a realist approach takes us into the underworld of shanghai in moment of the 1930s when this city was one of the more cosmopolitan and international cities. Shanghai modern: in china, the lm industry was centered in the very international city of shanghai, emblem of modern asia. Debates going on in china about modernization, development of modern city and concept of. Goddess: this variety of st. walking prostitute not what china was used to: brothels traditional (takes place in contained space not just for sex: also smoke together, companionship, somewhat accepted) St. walking variety only cropped up because of development of cities: seen as a symptom of city.