You should write one short paragraph for each response. Be sure to fully explain your answers using support from the assigned readings.
Your answers will be evaluated on the basis of your ability to develop your central idea, express yourself clearly, and support the major points with concrete, specific evidence or examples.
In Whitney Crothers Dilley’s book, she mentions that criticism of Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) by its Taiwanese audience is that the drama itself is “too ‘Westernized’ and that such ‘exaggerated’ events could never take place in the conservative Chinese cultural environment of early 1990s Taiwan.”
A. What are some of the scenes from the film that present such conflicts? List two. (10 points)
B. What does a close review of these scenes suggest or reveal about the conflicts between Chinese and Western values (or the impact of globalization)? (15 points)
Nostalgia is a prevailing theme across these two articles: “Food and Cuisine in a Changing Society” and “Film and Enigmatization.”
A. How do both scholars define or explain the concept of nostalgia? (15 points)
B. What does the concept of nostalgia have to do with Hong Kong society and cinema? (10 points)
Why does Hong Kong-style cuisine (e.g., yum cha) enjoy popularity in Taiwan? What does the popularity symbolize in terms of the socio-political meanings? (Hint: think Westernization and other changes, such as social hierarchy; ethnic and national identities.)
Gina Marchetti asserts Hong Kong female filmmakers’ melodramas are more in tune with the changing dynamics of women’s lives in the territory. The onscreen characters often deal with questions related to “reproductive freedom, career choice, and advancement, consumerism and body image, domestic arrangements within the Chinese patriarchy, as well as limitations on female sexuality” (593). How do you apply this statement to Fagara (2019)? List 3 examples using scene or character analysis.
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