This week’s film is: Swallowtail Butterfly (Suwarouteiru, Iwai Shunji, 1996)

Required Reading:Colleen A. Laird, “Japanese Cinema, the classroom, and Swallowtail Butterfly,” Jump Cut 52 (2010). https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc52.2010/lairdsw…

Keyword is ‘heterogeneity’.

Here are some explanation for this keyword related to this course from professor in lecture:

Why this keyword? Because I wanted to introduce you the complexity, diversity, and the difficulty of defining Japanese cinema in a simple manner.

Okay. So do film of this week is Swallowtail butterfly. So I want you to watch this film after this lecture. This is film directed by a Japanese filmmaker, UI Xunzi in 1986. This is a film made in Japan. This is a film by a Japanese filmmaker. Beat Japan money. But I think this is a very good example of heterogeneity of Japanese cinema. When you watch this film or think about languages, think about ethnicities. Think also about visual style has given us so many interesting ways of depicting story in this film. One such example is a so-called music video style. This film is a very interesting adventure story, but at the same time, this has a very interesting style of music video as well. So this is not a straightforward cinematic film. This is kinda like a music video as well. Service is Marty periodicity or heterogeneity of visual styles as well.

For No.6, the image is just a screenshot of the scene you picked or the one make you feel something.

Here is how the review will be graded:

Grading criteria is as follow (10 points total):

1. On-time Submission
2. Length(300-400 words)
3. Pick one scene from the required film this week
4. Originality (Your own idea about why and how the scene is impressive)
5. Reference to assigned reading
6. Image
7. Clarity of expression (appropriate grammar; clear meanings of words
8. Coherent structure of argument (No bullet point or itemization)
9. Present the Keyword from this week’s lecture
10. Explanation of the keyword