CityU GE 2107

City University of Hong Kong
GE2107 - Ideology and Creativity: Unwrapping Japanese Culture - 日本?

This GE course will introduce to students important perspectives of race, gender and generation through world-known icons of Japanese culture as Madame Butterfly, the Geisha and the Samurai as cultural heroes. Images of femininity and masculinity deriving from such globally circulating stereotypes will be refracted through popular gendered representations of the Japanese family in film (the workin  ...