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Fleming D (2024) Confucius and Film Philosophy: Regarding the Ludic Politics of Chinese Screen-Plays. Green College Special Event, Green College, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, 04.12.2024-04.12.2024. https://greencollege.ubc.ca/civicrm/event/info%3Fid%3D1791%26reset%3D1
Abstract
Interweaving methods drawn from Film Studies, Comparative Philosophy, Games Theory and Media Archaeology in response to broader calls to deepen and thicken the scope and purview of film-philosophical enquiry, this talk explores the strategic deployment and cinematic qualities of three Chinese films featuring arguably the best-known and most influential thinker in world history: Confucius. Using three very different renderings of China’s master philospher/signifier drawn from three very different epochs—Fei Mu’s 1940 patriotic art film Kǒng Fūzǐ, Hu Mei's 2010 “Huallywood” blockbuster Kǒngzǐ, and the AI-infused 2023 “Xi Jinping Thought on Culture” theory-film When Marx Met Confucius—David Flemming explores the political and ehtico-aesthetic differences and repetitions surrounding the production and projection of these philosphical “screen-plays” while exposing how the encounter between Chinese thought and “Western” film-philosophy appears mutually enriching and expanding from both sides.
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Delivered at Green College, Vancouver, Canada
| Status | Unpublished |
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| Publication date | 31/12/2024 |
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| Conference | Green College Special Event |
| Conference location | Green College, UBC, Vancouver, Canada |
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