04 May 2022

Murakami’s Sheep and Post-War Japanese Ideology

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Murakami Haruki is one of the most well-regarded yet controversial authors in contemporary Japanese literature. Being the son of two literat...
27 April 2022

Watching a film by ear: An acousmatic approach to cinema

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Sound film is commonly expressed as the interplay between the audio and the visual. Since the 1920s, audiences’ cinematic experience has bee...
10 January 2022

Stages of minimalism on Fumio Sasaki's path to happiness

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In recent years, minimalism as an approach to art has given way to minimalism as a lifestyle. Used not only as a means of reducing personal ...
20 June 2021

Fading morality in American Biblical film adaptations

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It seems only natural that films (or any other media) devoted to retelling Biblical stories would, first and foremost, exalt their moral vi...
11 April 2021

An author of outsiders: Jim Jarmusch’s "Down by law"

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Jim Jarmusch is an American independent film director with a dominant characteristic of his cinema; marginality. The director’s movies focus...
20 November 2020

"A story of a bird named Bìm Bịp": Lies, violence, and meaning

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“On the road, he met a bandit who was wielding a big sword. The monk was scared, but he thought the bandit would not harm him because he is ...
16 September 2020

Pacific Islander’s effect on media production

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The indigenous people and culture of Hawaiʻi have been sabotaged by misrepresentation, sexualisation, and exoticisation stemming from foreig...
22 June 2019

Kerouac and the Fellahin tribe of God's children

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On the Road is a literary phenomenon in a conservative post-war America in the late 1950s of such rippling effects that its author, Jack ...
15 March 2019

Murakami and music in "Sputnik sweetheart"

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The Japanese writer Haruki Murakami is renowned for his unexpected mystical stories that contained within them many symbols and musical re...
16 January 2019

Competition and cooperation in Korean education

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Education has become a principle duty for most of humanity. It is the major element for human growth and contributes to building a society...
07 November 2018

Media portrayal of an ideal beauty image

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In Indonesia, there is one image of ideal beauty that is portrayed in all media, from magazines, advertisement billboards to commercials, ...
24 September 2018

"Coach Carter" and the lone quest for winning in life

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One of the most powerful speeches of the 2005 American film Coach Carter was delivered inside a library, which may seem odd for a sports ...