COMM3939 Film Directors
| Course | COMM3939 Film Directors | ||
| Class Time | Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 09:30 – 12:15 | ||
| Teacher | Mr. SHIN Chi Man Thomas | ||
| Course Description | This course will explore the “auteur” or “author” theory by focusing on several directors each time the course is offered. Auteur directors such as Alfred Hitchcock(希治閣), John Ford(約翰福特), Billy Wilder(比利懷德), Charlie Chaplin(卓別林), Akira Kurosawa(黑澤明), Francis Ford Coppola(哥普拉), Orson Welles(奧信威爾斯), Martin Scorcese(史高西斯), Zhang Yimou(張藝謀), Stanley Kwan(關錦鵬), Ann Hui(許鞍華) , Wong Kar Wai(王家衛), Woody Allen(活地亞倫), Fellini(費里尼), Ingmar Bergman(柏格曼), Stanley Kubrick(寇比力克), Lars von Trier(查艾爾), etc., are among the possible choices for study in this course. Each semester the selection of directors will ensure a mix of past and present, as well as American, European and Asian filmmakers. | ||
| Course Outline/Syllabus | TBC | ||
| Prerequisite(s) | — | ||
| Remark(s) | — |
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Mr. SHIN Chi Man Thomas became a Hong Kong film critic since 1992. He is now part-time lecturer of Chinese University of Hong Kong and Board director of the Hong Kong Film Critics Society. He is also a columnist in Hong Kong Economic Journal, a reputable Chinese newspaper in HK. He was one of the founding members of Hong Kong Film Critics Society in 1994. From 1995 to 2019, he has been a senior editor of the film page of Hong Kong Economic times, another reputable Chinese newspaper in HK. He has also served as the jury of the Taiwan Golden Horse Award and the jury of the Rotterdam Film Festival in the Netherlands. He was a host of RTHK film radio program from 1998 to 2008. He is one of the Arts Criticism Committee advisor of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. |
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