A Review Essay of: James, David (1999). Tradition and the Movies: The Asian American Avant-Garde in Los Angeles. Source, 2 (2), 157-180. Ongiri, Amy Abugo (2002). "He wanted to be just like Bruce Lee": African Americans, Kung Fu Theater and Cultural Exchange at the Margins.
e. Pragglejaz Group 2007; including a variant of MIP formulated by a group of scholars at VU University Amsterdam, Steen at al, 2010; or Cameron and Malsen 2010) and forget at the same time about the multimodal context allowing the deep understanding of the situation. A dynamic view on a cinematic metaphor suggested by Müller and Schmitt makes therefore a new perspective with regard to definition of metaphor and language possible. Müller and Schmitt advocate an attitude to an audio-visual metaphor as to be a part of our conceptual system and to be grounded in “affective experiences evoked by the moving nature of audio-visual images” (Müller and Schmitt 2015, p. 312-313). In this term understanding of a dynamic metaphor is suggested to be a flow of experience, which appears in a spectator firstly as immediate affection through the dynamic orchestration and secondly as temporally organised form of movement experience connected with activation of metaphoricity (Kapppelhoff 2004, after Müller and Schmitt
In the essay "Being Zack Morris," Chuck Klosterman describe reality through the precarious lens of Saved by the Bell. He argues that some elements of pop culture, such as Fleetwood Mac songs and Saved by the Bell, can illustrate how important things are inevitably cliché. Klosterman, in his book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, conveys this idea of post-modernism and how individuals view their world and reality. Postmodernism is a theory that involves the reappraising of the modern assumption about culture, identity, history or language. Klosterman also writes using hyper reality, which distorts the reality it depicts or does not in fact depict anything with real existence at all, but which nonetheless comes to constitute reality.
These films will be analysed to see specifically how the above idea manifests in these films in the making of a western genre. To understand the Western genre and how it applies in any way, one must first understand the concept of genre. Various interpretations make for various points of view. The notion that different types of literature exist was first introduced by Aristotle in his Poetics (Buscombe, 2013). According to The Batsford Dictionary of Drama genre is a” subcategory of an art form, with its own codes and conventions.”(Hodgson 1988:149:149).The Academic Dictionary of Drama on the other hand explains genre as “the general type or form of a literary work…” (Pandey 2005:107).
Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, helps reinforce his message of how an American Dream can be corrupted if the society built on it is corrupted by materialistic views. Fitzgerald thoroughly provides insight on his message through the use of universal symbolism and effective imagery. With the use of symbols such as the green light and automobiles, Fitzgerald was able to build his perspective on the American Dream and how it can be achievable only if it is limited to the extent of attempting to achieve moral perfection. Daisy is illustrated to act as a social status symbol for Tom and this helped emphasize Fitzgerald’s message of the how corrupt money and materialism can make the American Dream. These implications outlined by Fitzgerald suggest the truth behind what individuals believe and how pursing the American Dream only for wonder is overseen with
(102) The author is telling the reader how illusion can easily be confused with reality. If one takes technology too far it could turn into something that is deceivingly real. Through descriptive detail, Bradbury is trying to warn us how there are two sides to technology. Although it may look like a fine thing at first, if one takes it too far, it could turn into something
Perception The Role Perception Plays in Decision Making Tracey Redmann Axia College of University of Phoenix Perception 2 What is perception? Before looking at the role perception plays in the decision making process one should have a clear understanding of what perception is. According to Oxford Reference Online Premium (2009), perception is: The faculty of acquiring sensory experience. Study of the processes by which we gather and interpret visual information is largely the province of social psychologists, who have identified several general principles (‘laws’) of perception, and also some effects upon it of (among other things) motivation and attention. The former includes the phenomenon of the ‘figure-ground contrast’; that is, how we perceive objects distinctly from their surroundings.
Introduction Apart from elements of Modernism and Post-colonialism, Notes of a Desolate Man is commonly recognized as one of the classics of postmodernist fiction in Chinese. However, I have no intention to do more research on topics about post-modernism for I find issues about the influence of the contemporary on queer identities much more interesting. From my point of view, the book can also be regarded as an exemplification of how capitalism constructs one’s queer identities. Therefore, I have come up with an idea of writing a thesis on how environment (capitalism) shapes our identities. In order to make it much more fun to both the reader and the writer, I will use Notes of a Desolate Man as textual evidence to analyze the influences of Capitalism on male homosexual in Taiwan, especially on upper-middle class homosexual like Xiao-Shao and his gay friends.
Postmodernism in the film Being John Malkovich Jae Sung Park – 2011191020 Postmodernism is a philosophical idea that became prominent in the latter half of the twentieth century. This idea focuses on raising questions against the validity of reality and what is commonly regarded as the truth. In this aspect, postmodernism can be seen as a derivative of modernism, which also questions the Enlightenment ideas of absolute truths and individual sovereignty. They are both a significant drift from the realism of 19th century. However, postmodernism is distinguishable from its predecessor in several key aspects (although there is still much debate about the criteria for how this distinction can be made).
Jean-Francois Lyotard was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as knowledge and communication, the human body, modernist and postmodern art, literature and critical theory, music, film, time and memory, space, the city and landscape, the sublime, and the relation between aesthetics and politics. He is best known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and the analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition. He was co-founder of the International College of Philosophy with Jacques Derrida, François Châtelet, and Gilles Deleuze. Lyotard looks at the pragmatics of narrative and scientific knowledge.