課程名稱：愛情電影與愛論述
課程性質：人文通識
課程範圍：
A. Alain de Botton, Essays in Love:
15.“Intermittences of the Heart”
12.“Scepticism and Faith”
17.“Contractions”
18.“Romantic Terrorism”
13.“Intimacy”
19.“Beyond Good and Evil”
B. Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse:
“Ravishment”
“The Intractable”
“The Ribbon”
“E lucevan le stelle”
以上皆為簡答題(short answers, 不超過三句話)
C. 幾篇閱讀跟電影作品一起出問答題(essay questions)
(17) Zizek on Brief Encounter
(18) Kipnis on adultery and capitalism
(15) Cunningham on Ma nuit chez Maud
(19) Salecl on The Age of Innocence
(22) Brunette on 花樣年華
(23) Verhaeghe on desire
(31) Jollimore on Nietzsche and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
開課教師：伍軒宏
開課學院：外語學院
開課系級：英語系
考試日期(年月日)：2014年6月18日
考試時限(Mins)：16:10-18:20
附註：
1. 開書考：僅限紙本，不可用電子產品、不可交換資料
2. 老師第一次開這門課，還不是很瞭解同學答題狀況，因此考試時間延長
3. 如要引用，記得以學術格式引用
試題本文：
I. Essay Questions 三題，各25%
1. (AB兩個問題選一題回答就好)
(A) According to Slavoj Zizek, in Brief Encounter, the condition of
impossibility for Alec and Laura's affair is also its condition of possibility
(Course pack reading #17, the second page). What does this mean? Please
explain sufficiently.
(B) In Closer, Anna reluctantly accepts the "bargain" of sleeping with Larry
so as to get his signature on the divorce papers. Why does she do it? What does
this say about Anna and Larry? On the other hand, after Dan's persistent
inquiry into what happens between Larry and Alice after Dan leaves her for
Anna, Alice says to him, "I don't love you any more." Why does she say so? What
does this event say about Alice and Dan?
2. At the end of In the Mood for Love (花樣年華), Su Li-zhen (蘇麗珍) secretly
visits Chow Mo-wan (周慕雲)'s room in Singapore, touching reminiscently his
personal items, "retrieving" her pink slippers, and leaves after dialing his
phone number at work without speaking. In your opinion, why does she decide not
to be re-united with Chow Mo-wan? Is this similar to or different from Newland
Archer's decision at the end of The Age of Innocence, not to go upstairs to
meet Ellen, whom he has longed to see for 26 years (our reading #19, pp.14-6)?
Are their decisions related to the question of desire, as far as you know?
3. In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, people go to Lacuna clinic to
erase their painful memories when they break up. As far as the movie is
concerned, do you think it is a good idea to forget about one's past love
affairs? What does one "gain" and "lose" when one chooses to do that? What does
it mean when Troy Jollimore, citing C.S. Lewis, argues that the movie
demonstrates "the very mark of Eros" (our reading #31, pp. 58-9) and
Nietzschean affirmation (pp.51-2, 54-5)?
II. Short answers 五題各5%，共25%
Alain de Botton's Essays in Love:
A. In love relationships, what events take place so as to force some people
to enter "the era of romantic terrorism" (155)? What do people try to attain
when they are "tempted to turn to romantic teorrism" (156)?
B. What is an experience? How do experiences relate to the growth of intimacy
between lovers?
C. WHy do so many people approach rejection in love by way of "moral language,
the language of right and wrong, good and evil, as though to reject or not to
reject, to love or not to love, was something that naturally belonged to a
branch of ethics" (171) or morality?
A Lover's Discourse by Roland Barthes:
D. What does it mean to "affirm love... as a value" (22)?
E. When one is in love, one feels that a power "emanates" from the loved one to
affect or "impregnate" the objects he or she is in contact with. Why does
Barthes call such an object "the metonymic object" (173)?