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Anime: Fortress Of Solitude Or Kryptonite?, Oscar King Iv
Anime: Fortress Of Solitude Or Kryptonite?, Oscar King Iv
Honors Thesis
Anime is a complex medium that is expanding at a rapid rate on a global scale. It inspires fandoms, some of which unbelievably tenacious. My research explored scholarship concerning anime fans and asked the question: Why does anime in particular seem to create hyper-obsessed fans? I consulted fandom studies, pop culture scholarship, and sources regarding the anime medium as a whole.
The results of my study suggested that anime, at its extremes, functions in some capacity as a modern fairy tale genre. It allows a viewer to vicariously experience life through the screen, engaging with the animated characters in a …
Finders Keepers, Nicholas Jay Thacker
Finders Keepers, Nicholas Jay Thacker
LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Snoops, Rigvedita Nigam
Bad Romance, Chad Edward Wellinger
Bad Romance, Chad Edward Wellinger
LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Closure Agency, Albert T. Leo
The Closure Agency, Albert T. Leo
LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Blood Night, Tasha Joi Henderson
Blood Night, Tasha Joi Henderson
LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Senator's Wife, Matthew Jay Schlissel
The Senator's Wife, Matthew Jay Schlissel
LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Violence, Wuxia, Migrants: Jia Zhangke’S Cinematic Discontent In A Touch Of Sin, Yanjie Wang
Violence, Wuxia, Migrants: Jia Zhangke’S Cinematic Discontent In A Touch Of Sin, Yanjie Wang
Asian and Asian American Studies Faculty Works
This article examines the representation of violence in Jia Zhangke's film A Touch of Sin (2013) in light of Žižek's theory of ‘objective violence’ and the wuxia tradition. Jia attempts to understand the rise of individual violent incidents during China's post-socialist transformations by laying out the social, historical and political milieus in which they take place. He unveils the Žižekian objective violence hidden in the realm of social normality, pinpointing the country's sins of collusion with the global capital to impose injustice on the poor and disadvantaged. Invoking the wuxia genre, Jia portrays the protagonists not so much as perpetrators …