Topic: Memory, silence, witnessing, and violence in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s “City of Sadness”.

Order Description Assignment: final research paper on texts / films, which will attempt to say something original about one or more of the creative works discussed or referred to in class. Topics: Memory, silence, witnessing, and violence in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s “City of Sadness”. or The family and the nation in either “City of Sadness” or Edward Yang’s “Yi Yi”.