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Land, Language, And Liberation: The Politics Of Ainu Self-Representations, Kevin James Cohen Jan 2022

Land, Language, And Liberation: The Politics Of Ainu Self-Representations, Kevin James Cohen

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Nintendo Is Coming To China: The Struggles And Hopes Of Chinese Popular Culture, Qiaohui Amy Wang Jan 2022

Nintendo Is Coming To China: The Struggles And Hopes Of Chinese Popular Culture, Qiaohui Amy Wang

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College. Games are an important component in modern popular culture. Games are a form of entertainment that people all around the world enjoy. They allow people to overcome the limitations created by physical society. Before the Reform era in 1980s, China was a society that lived only under collective interests. When Deng Xiaoping ended the Cultural Revolution and brought China to the world, global giants are coming to China and introduce entertainments to this society. This study takes Nintendo as an example to analyze how oversea entertainments would …


Imagined Realities: The Rise Of New Wave Cinema In Post-War Japan, Asia Miro Smudde Tom Jan 2022

Imagined Realities: The Rise Of New Wave Cinema In Post-War Japan, Asia Miro Smudde Tom

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Project Submitted to the Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

My thesis explores cinematic representation in post-war Japan leading up the the New Wave movement. I examine the work of Yasujiro Ozu and Sun Tribe youth films and their relationship with conventions of cinema to bring awareness to narrative constructions of historical periods.