This award-winning 6-week online course looks at how Hong Kong cinema has become an integral part of global popular culture, and offers uniquely Hong Kong perspectives on the immigrant’s experience, gender and other issues. Week 3 of the course is dedicated to Hong Kong women filmmakers. The pioneering course was developed by internationally recognized film studies scholars Professor Gina Marchetti and Dr. Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park from the HKU Department of Comparative Literature and Dr. Stacilee Ford from the HKU Department of History and American Studies Program with the creative assistance of HKU TELI (Technology-Enriched Learning Initiative).
For details, please visit:
https://www.edx.org/course/hong-kong-cinema-through-a-global-lens
Each unit showcases talents, themes, and local-global connections. The cinematic canvas ranges from martial arts and heroic bloodshed films to romantic comedies and migration melodramas. Covering a range of topics, genres, and films, the course features demonstrations of swordplay and action choreography. It also tutors students in the close analysis of film techniques, uncovers the reasons for the worldwide appeal of genres such as the kung fu film, and nurtures a comparative and critical understanding of issues of gender, race, and migration. Interviews with film professionals such as directors Mabel Cheung and Andrew Lau, producer John Sham, film festival director Roger Garcia, and other guests, offer candid insights about the industry.
MOOC Hong Kong Cinema through a Global Lens Trailer: https://tl.hku.hk/2018/12/hong-kong-cinema-through-a-global-lens/
News/Awards
Sina
Chinese Cinema and Chinese Cinema Studies Under Global Vision
by Sina Education
13 Oct 2018
http://edu.sina.com.cn/gaokao/2018-10-13/doc-ifxeuwws3951437.shtml
Film Matters Magazine
Interview with Dr. Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong
By Catherine Colson
13 Aug 2018
http://www.filmmattersmagazine.com/2018/08/13/interview-with-dr-aaron-han-joon-magnan-park-assistant-professor-department-of-comparative-literature-university-of-hong-kong-by-catherine-colson/
Asia Global Online
Asia Global Institute
18 Jan 2018
http://www.asiaglobalonline.hku.hk/moocs-turn-local-into-global/
The course won the Bronze Award in the 2017 MOOCr Awards in the category “Course Management and Promotion”.
Viewfinder
Learning on Screen
British Universities Film & Video Council
17 Mar 2017
Hong Kong Cinema MOOC
By Gina Marchetti, Stacilee Ford, Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park
http://bufvc.ac.uk/viewfinder
RTHK Radio 3
24 Feb 2017
Agender Café, The 1-2-3 Show
By Karen Koh and Noreen Mir
http://programme.rthk.hk/channel/radio/programme.php?name=radio3/1_2_3_show&d=2017-02-24&p=5979&e=420282&m=episode
HKU Teaching & Learning
12 Feb 2017
Bringing a Course into the Cinema
By HKU Teaching & Learning
http://tl.hku.hk/elearningblog/?pid=21394
SingTao Education
10 Feb 2017
Movie action in online course
By SingTao Education
http://stedu.stheadline.com/sec/sec_news.php?aid=16794&cat=2&subcat=7
TVBS News
10 Feb 2017
港片對世界電影影響 李小龍先帶動功夫熱
By TVBS News
http://news.tvbs.com.tw/world/706264
Film Matters Magazine
10 Feb 2017
New HKU MOOC: Hong Kong Cinema Through a Global Lens Premieres on 7 February 2017
By Film Matters Magazine
http://www.filmmattersmagazine.com/2017/02/10/new-hku-mooc-hong-kong-cinema-through-a-global-lens-premieres-on-7-february-2017/
HK01
9 Feb 2017
港大免費網上課程 全球視野看港片影響力
By 翟啟豪
https://www.hk01.com/article/70623
South China Morning Post
6 Feb 2017
University of Hong Kong launches MOOC to teach film buffs how Hong Kong cinema conquered the world
By Enid Tsui
http://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2068438/university-hong-kong-launches-mooc-teach-film-buffs-how-hong-kong
The Standard
7 Feb 2017
Switch onto movie action with HKU online course
By Amy Nip
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news.php?id=179363
Barbara Oakley
20 Jan 2017
Important New MOOC on Hong Kong Cinema Jan 20, 2017
By Barbara Oakley
http://barbaraoakley.com/important-new-mooc-hong-kong-cinema-jan-20-2017/
Faculty of Arts News Letter
Winter 2015
Hong Kong Film Course Taps a Global Audience
By Faculty of Arts News Letter
http://arts.hku.hk/winter2015.pdf
Endorsements
“The second week of the module on HONG KONG CINEMA THROUGH A GLOBAL LENS was a truly exceptional educational experience for me. Like many others of my generation in Film Studies, I also come with a high-brow educational background in Philosophy, literature and cultural history. My credentials in knowing and understanding popular culture are poor – but improving all the time. In the past, I received a major boost in this direction from the work of Savas Arslan on popular Turkish cinema. And now, through the competent and efficient bite-sized commentary on the global phenomenon of Bruce Lee, Aaron Magnan-Park has taken an equally important role in my further education.
So many aspects of this second week were important for me, but I would particularly underscore how pleased I was to see Aaron acknowledging that the very first statue of Bruce Lee has been erected in Mostar, on the territory of former Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina). This prompted me to think of my friend Goran Topalovic who today runs the New York Asian Film Festival at Lincoln Center – but who started off as one of the boys fascinated with the martial art fare coming out of Hong Kong in his early days in Yugoslavia. Aaron, Goran, I think the two of you may have quite a bit to talk about. It would be part of the global conversation that I see Aaron is involved with at the moment, as the photo I found illustrates.”
Professor Dîna Iordanova
Department of Film Studies, University of St Andrews
26 Feb 2017
“This is my first ever MOOC session and I’m skeptical about online education. But the lecture and clips overcame my objections and I really enjoyed this session. Like the instructor I was also around in the UK at the time of the Kung Fu craze and remember those Golden Harvest, Shaw Bros releases as well as the first ever King Hu film THE FATE OF LEE KHAN shown in the old Electric Cinema Club in Portobello Road, London. I learned much more about Bruce Lee and his influence from this session and I’m really looking forward to slotting time to watch the rest.”
Professor Tony Williams
Department of English
Southern Illinois University
18 Feb 2017
“ I am so excited about what is probably (one of?) the first MOOC(s) in the teaching of global cinema: The University of Hong Kong’s module on HONG KONG CINEMA TROUGH A GLOBAL LENS, taught by my friend Gina Marchetti with assistance from my friend Aaron Magnan-Park, and others. As my doctoral student Abdulrahman Alghannam put it yesterday — it is ‘the stuff of the future’:) Quite inspirational.
I sat through the introductory videos, on Globalization, yesterday, and was particularly pleased to see how the role that film festivals play is interwoven in the analysis of the processes of globalization in cinema. It is precisely such acknowledgment of festivals that I have always been hoping for will take place when I was first starting to work on film festivals — so I feel rewarded.
Today I am planning to educate myself on Jackie Chan, the world’s most recognizable film star at large. And, I hope to get soon to the moment where Aaron will be teaching on wuxia/martial arts routines — by demonstration, as far as I understand. I have seen the kenpo gear in his office in the Run Run Shaw Tower — on display, but not yet in action…Cannot wait:) ”
Professor Dîna Iordanova
Department of Film Studies, University of St Andrews
8 Feb 2017
“The brilliant, prolific, and insightful Gina Marchetti has developed a MOOC about Hong Kong Cinema Through a Global Lens. Course is FREE, and you can engage other learners and discussants from around the globe to talk and debate all things cinematic and Hong Kong. NOT TO BE MISSED!”
Professor Patricia R. Zimmermann
Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College
10 Jan 2017
