Module Introduction and Requirements

This class I learned some introduction about world cinema. I understand that what is world cinema. World cinema is a term used primarily in english speaking countries to refer to the films and film industries of non-english-speaking countries. And it has an unofficial implication of films with "artistic value" as opposed to "Hollywood commercialism."This new art form cinema are discovers during 1895-1918. And it became more common in the early 2000s. The first foreign and foreign language film to top the North American box office was Hero in the August of 2004.

I watched the Chinese movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon before. It was a swordsman action movie in 2000. And the director is Li An which very famous in China.

I think the most wonderful thing in this movie is not only rich Oriental colorific "jianghu". It is the emotional characterization of character inner world. Their inner heart imprisoned by feudal secular society and traditional Confucianism thought.

In addition, I also know some problems and issues with world cinema during class. The main criticism is that "world cinema" functioned as a perfunctory, contradictory term for a long time. They take for granted the centrality of Hollywood as setting the standard against which all other cinemas must define themselves.They fail to take into account the great diversity of other cinemas or the different historical trajectories of their origins and developments. And they disregard the diversity and complexity of cinema within the US itself, they provide a negative definition, the label "world" can sometimes be used in an almost derogatory way.