Many choreographers don't know which books and films to watch when preparing for the exam. Although the major colleges and universities have their own characteristics, there are no fixed templates and routines available for preparation, but these books and movies are a must-see item for choreographers who want to take the famous school choreographers.
Choreographer majors are generally divided into drama, film and television literature, drama film and television directors, radio and television choreographers and other majors, specific to a certain school and a certain major, what books and movies to see, perhaps in the general list we recommend below, but the number is very large, specific to a certain major is not necessarily useful, but for the entire choreography major, it is useful for your future career.
In addition, more specific recommendations can also be consulted on the school's official website.
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The Art of Cinema – Form and Style (U.S.) by David Podwell and Christine Thompson
What is Cinema (in French) andré Bazin
"Knowing the Movie" (Us) By Louis Janetti
Aesthetics of Cinema, (Hungarian) Bella Baraz
Entertain to Death, (Us) Bozeman
Ten Years: Starting with Changing the Voice of Television, Sun Yusheng
The Disappearance of Childhood (United States) Neil Bozeman, Guangxi Normal University Press, 2004
Entertain to Death( Neil Bozeman, Guangxi Normal University Press, 2004
Understanding the Medium, [plus] Marshall McLuhan, The Commercial Press, 2000
Understanding Society (English) Philip Mailer
The Illusion of Postmodernism, Terry Eagleton
Mirrors and Lamps: Romantic Literature and Critical Tradition, Abrams
Three Books of Aesthetics, Li Zehou, History of Chinese Philosophy, Feng Youlan
Book of Poetry, Warring States Policy, Analects
"Zhuangzi", "Xunzi", "Chu Ci"
"Huainanzi", "On Balance", "Zuo Zhuan"
Lao Tzu, Mozi, Mencius
"Han Feizi", "Selected Yuanqu", "History"
Book of Han, Selected Songs of Ming
"Ancient Literature Guanzhi" / Wu Chucai, Wu Tiaohou
Romance of the Three Kingdoms / Luo Guanzhong, Water Margin / Shi Nai'an
Dream of the Red Chamber / Cao Xueqin, Goddess / Guo Moruo
"Midnight" / Mao Dun, "Home" / Barkin
"Camel Xiangzi" / Lao She, "Siege of the City" / Qian Zhongshu
Cao Yu Anthology / Cao Yu, Song of Youth / Yang Mo
The Republic/ Plato, Metaphysics / Aristotle
Confessions/ St. Augustine, Thoughts/Pascal
The New Tool/Bacon, On the Spirit of the Law/Montesquieu
Social Contract Theory / Rousseau, Ethics / Spinoza
A History of Western Philosophy/ Russell
The Fall of the West/ Oswald Spengler
The Birth of Tragedy / Friedrich Nietzsche
Cultural Science and Natural Sciences / (Germany) Lee Celster
On Man/(Germany) Cassirer
A History of Scientific Thought in China / (UK) Needham
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism / (USA) Daniel Bell
From Chaos to Order/ Prigokin
The Iliad / (Ancient Greece) Homer
Odysseus / (Ancient Greece) Homer
Divine Comedy / (Italy) Dante
Don Quixote / (Spain) Cervantes
Hamlet / (UK) Shakespeare
Faust / (Germany) Goethe
Jane Eyre / (UK) Charlotte Brontë
The Red and the Black / (France) Stendhal
Les Misérables / (France) Hugo
The Tall Old Man / (France) Balzac
Uncle Tom's Cabin / (USA) Mrs. Stowe
Anna Karenina / (Russia) Tolstoy
The Doll's House / (Norway) Ibsen
"Mother" / (Russian-Soviet) Gorky
Selected Short Stories of Kafka / (Austria) Kafka
Selected Poems of Tagore / (India) Tagore
How Steel is Made / (SOVIET) Nikolai Ostrovsky
《Snow Country》/(Japan) Yasunari Kawabata
The Old Man and the Sea / (USA) by Hemingway; translated by Dong Hengxun
One Hundred Years of Solitude / (Colombia) García Márquez
In addition, the famous writers of modern China:
Lu Xun, Guo Moruo, Zhou Zuoren, Mao Dun, Ba Jin, Lao She, Cao Yu, Zhao Shuli, Shen Congwen, Ding Ling, Zhang Ailing, Ai Qing, Yu Dafu, Tian Han, Zhang Hexhui, Lin Yutang, Xu Zhimo, Mu Dan, Feng Zhi, Dai Wangshu, Haizi, Jia Pingwa, Mo Yan, Wang Anyi, Jin Yong and so on.
Among them, Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, Cao Yu, Ding Ling, etc. are best to read the complete collection, and the others are at least finished reading the anthology.
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Domestic chapter
First Generation Directors:
Zheng Zhengqiu - "Laborer's Love"
Zhang Shichuan - "Golden Powder Family", "Singer Red Peony"
But Du Yu - "Stone Breaking the Sky"
Yang Xiaozhong - "Sun Wukong Three Dozen White Bone Essences"
Shao Drunken Weng - "The Wanderings of the Bitter Child"
Second Generation Director:
Cheng Bugao - "Wild Currents"
Shen Xiling - "Cross Street"
Cai Chusheng - "Fishing Light Song"
Stone Mountain - "Eight Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons"
Fei Mu - "Wolf Mountain Blood", "Spring in a Small Town"
Sun Yu - "The Great Road", "Wild Rose"
Wu Yonggang - "Goddess", "Bashan Night Rain"
Mulberry Arc - "Midnight"
Third Generation Director:
Shui Hua - "Lin Jia Shop"
Xie Tieli - "Early Spring february", "Wise Tiger Mountain"
Zheng Junli - "Lin Zexu"
Xie Jin - "Garland Under the Mountain"
Cheng Yin - "Southern Expedition and Northern War"
Cui Song - "Song of Youth", "Little Soldier Zhang Ga"
Ling Zifeng - "Li Siguang", "Children of China"
Fourth Generation Director:
Wu Yigong - "Bashan Night Rain", "Old Things in Seongnam"
Teng Wenji - "The Chess King", "The Ballad of the Yellow River"
Xie Fei - "The Year of The True Destiny"
Wu Tianming - "A Hundred Birds and a Phoenix"
Huang Jianzhong – "My 1919"
Huang Shuqin - "Human Ghost Love"
Zheng Dongtian - "Secret Golden Triangle"
Fifth Generation Director:
Chen Kaige - "Yellow Land", "Farewell to the Overlord"
Zhang Yimou - "My Father and Mother", "Jinling Thirteen Chao"
Wu Ziniu - "Nanjing Massacre"
Tian Zhuangzhuang - "Spring in a Small Town", "Yang Guifei"
Huo Jianqi - "That Man That Mountain, That Dog"
Zhang Junzhao - "One and Eight", "Taipei Woman"
Huang Jianxin - "Ambush", "The Great Cause of Building the Country"
Feng Xiaoning - "Raise Your Hand"
Li Shaohong - "Orange Red", "Dream of the Red Chamber"
Gu Changwei - "The Favorite"
Sixth Generation Director:
Guan Hu - "Hair Is Messed Up", "The Cook Plays the Fool", "The Old Cannon"
Wang Xiaoshuai - "Seventeen-year-old bicycle", "Rizhao Chongqing"
Zhang Ming - "Wushan Cloud And Rain", "Lang Sings Mountain Songs on the Opposite Side"
Lu Xuechang - "Carla is a Dog"
Lou Ye - "Suzhou Creek", "Tuina"
Zhang Yang - "Bathing", "Falling Leaves Back to the Roots"
Jia Zhangke - "The Good Man of the Three Gorges"
Zhang Yuan - "East Palace West Palace", "Going Home for the New Year"
Wang Quan'an - "Lunar Eclipse", "Sting", "White Deer Plain"
Lu Chuan - "Coco Xili", "Nanjing! nanking! 》
Ning Hao - "Green Grass", "Crazy Stone"
Well-known directors:
Jiang Wen - "Sunny Day", "The Devil Is Coming"
Feng Xiaogang - "Assembling Number", "Tangshan Earthquake"
Li Yu - "Guanyin Mountain", "All Things Grow"
Yang Shupeng - "My Tang Dynasty Brothers", "Pifu"
Cao Baoping - "Li Mi's Conjecture"
Cheng Er - "History of the Demise of Romanticism"
Foreign chapter
United States:
"Walking in the Clouds", "Schindler's List"
Apocalypse Now, General Patton
"August Mystery", "Simone"
Gone with the Wind, The Shining
"Fashion Witch", "Mindcatcher"
"Saving Private Ryan", "Truman's World"
The Ultimate Interview, Pride and Prejudice
"The Sixth Sense of Life and Death", "The Love of Man and Ghost"
"Notting Hill", "Happy Terminal"
The Shawshank Redemption, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
"The Fantasy Drift of The Young Pi", "The Silence of the Lambs"
Inception, Pearl Harbor
"Song in the Rain", "The Godfather"
"Forrest Gump", "Graduate"
Avatar, The Lord of the Rings
"Spy 3", "Perfume"
Taxi Driver, The Lord of the Rings
"August Mystery", "Broken Arm Mountain"
"Graduate"
United Kingdom:
"Horror" "Butterfly Dream"
Strangers on the Train, Doctor Zhivago
Lawrence of Arabia, The Dueling Man
Alien, Gladiator
Prometheus, Pharaoh and the Gods
"Shallow Grave", "Slum Millionaire"
Italy:
The Last Emperor, The Pianist of the Sea
Cinema Paradiso, The Beautiful Legend of Sicily
"A Beautiful Life", "The Last Tango in Paris"
Once Upon a Time in the West
Russia:
"Here the Dawn Is Quiet", "The Night Watchman"
"The Station of Two Men", "Russian Ark"
The Barber of Siberia, Brutal Romance
"Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears"
Korea:
"Empty Room", "Bow"
"Kind Gold", "The Gift of Room Seven"
"Busan Trip", "My Savage Girlfriend"
"August Photo Studio", "Harmony"
"Uncle", "Daisy"
"Tai Chi Flag Flying", "Untouchable Lover"
Memories of Killing, Old Boy
"Revenge", "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring"
Mints
Japan
"The Mortician", "Love Letter"
"Rashomon", "The Life of the Rejected Pine Nuts"
"Hanabi", "Spirited Away"
"Kikujiro's Summer", "Kikujiro's Summer"
"Rain Moon Story", "Flowers and Alice"
"The Hunt", "Tokyo Story"
Iran:
"Little Shoes", "The Taste of Cherries"
"The Color of Heaven", "Who Can Take Me Home"
"White Balloon", "Circle of Life"
India:
"Ashoka", "Three Fools Bollywood"
Slumdog Millionaire, Fashion
"Bollywood Life and Death Love", "Heavenly Gifts"
"Unknown Death", "Love Without Borders"
France:
"This Killer Is Not Too Cold", "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class"
"Angel Amelie", "Tiger Mouth Escape"
"Taxi Express", "Welcome to the North"
"Shut Up", "Little Naughty Nicholas"
Rhapsody of the Black Shop, Joan of Arc
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