Internationally Renowned Filmmaker Comes to Campus as part of Year of China

 

As part of the College’s Year of China events, A&S is excited to welcome internationally renowned filmmaker Carma Hinton to campus this week. Keiko Tanaka, sociology professor and Director of the Asia Center, will show the documentary, “Morning Sun,” in her class, “Passport to China: Global Issues & Local Understanding.” "Morning Sun" is a psychological history of China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which took place from 1964-1976. The film provides a multi-perspective view of a tumultuous period as seen through the eyes — and reflected in the hearts and minds — of members of the high-school generation that was born around the time of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.

Hinton was born and lived in China until she was 21. She received a doctorate in art history from Harvard University and has lectured on Chinese culture, history, and film at various educational institutions around the world.

The film will be shown on October 25 at 5:00pm in room 118 of the Whitehall Classroom Building. The discussion of the film with Hinton will be held on October 27 at 5:00pm also in room 118 of the Whitehall Classroom Building.

Coady Brownstein

During my four years at the University of Kentucky, I discovered my passion in life. My freshman year, I signed up for a Russian language class, and just fell in love with the language, the culture, and the literature of the Russian people.

Year of China Film Series-Beijing or Bust

Beijing or Bust

 
November 15, 2011 - 5:00pm
Whitehall Classroom Bldg 118

Bejing or Bust

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0791066/

Beijing or Bust is a documentary that follows six American-born Chinese as they leave their lives in the United States for new ones in Beijing. The film, which is documentary maker Hao Wu’s first, was released in 2005. In 2006, while producing a different documentary Wu was detained by PRC officials for nearly 5 months.

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Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118

Year of China Film Series-2 Million Minutes

2 Million Minutes

 
November 8, 2011 - 5:00pm
Whitehall Classroom Bldg 118

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2 Million Minutes

http://www.2mminutes.com/

2 Million Minutes is a series of documentaries depicting how students in the United States, India, and China spend the 2,00,000 minutes of their high school years. Producer Robert Compton is a businessman who wanted to turn a lens to the role of education in the increasing amount of competition the United States faces from India and China. As of 2009, four chapters were produced.

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Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118

Year of China Film Series-Last Train Home

Last Train Home (归途列车)

November 1, 2011 - 5:00pm
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
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Each spring, during the Chinese New Year, millions of migrant factory workers leave their jobs on the prosperous eastern coast to visit the rural villages they call home. Last Train Home tells the story of one particular migrant family, the Zhangs, as they deal with the ruptures this annual migration creates in their family. Last Train Home is Canadian director Lixin Fan’s debut documentary and was released in 2009. 

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Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118

Year of China Film Series-Morning Sun

Year of China Film Series

Morning Sun (八九点钟的太阳)

http://www.morningsun.org/living/movies/movies.html

Morning Sun is an in-depth look at the Cultural Revolution, the socio-political movement that took place in China from 1966-1976. Director Carma Hinton uses an array of archival and propaganda footage along with interviews with Red Guard participants and victims to build a cinematic account of the tumultuous period in Chinese history. The film came out in 2003.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 5:00pm-7:00pm
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Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118

Year of China Lecture Series-Carma Hinton

Year of China Lecture Series

Carma Hinton - Director, "Morning Sun"

Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University

Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118

Thursday, October 27, 5:00-6:40pm

http://china.as.uky.edu/news/famous-filmmaker-focus-china-visits-uk

http://china.as.uky.edu/scholars/carma-hinton

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Location:
Whitehall Classroom Building Room 118
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