Film and Literature Studies

Killing Snakes in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

December 22nd, 2023

Public DomainSnakes, like other non-human animals, can exist in multiple layers of human experience.By Dr. Huaiyu ChenAssociate Professor of Religious StudiesArizona State UniversityAbstractIn the medieval Chinese context, snakes and tigers were viewed as two dominant, threatening animals in swamps and mountains. The animal-human confrontation increased with the expansion of human communities to the wilderness. Medieval Chinese Buddhists developed new discourses, strategies, rituals, and narr...

18th and 19th Century Foodways in North America

December 15th, 2023

Interior of the detached kitchen…preserved at Whitney Plantation…St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Credit:Library of Congress control number 2021755922BY B.J. SEDLOCKCharacters in novels set in the 18th and 19th centuries have to eat, so historical novelists may want to do research on foodways of that era. I’ll limit this list to North America, due to a wealth of material, and cover UK and Australia at a later date. (I covered ancient and medieval/Renaissance foodways in previous arti...

Denouement

January 18th, 2023

de·noue·ment /ˌdāno͞oˈmäN/ denouement noun the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved. "the film's denouement was unsatisfying and ambiguous" Also, it is the official name of the game rock paper scissors, which was invented in China

Analysis of the Technological Thought in Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

October 27th, 2022

Analysis of the Technological Thought in the "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844" and Its Enlightenment to Digitalization Humanities and Social SciencesPhilosophical ProgressVol. 11 No. 5 (October 2022)Journal Menu Analysis of the Technological Thought in the "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844" and Its Enlightenment to Digitalization DOI: 10.12677/ACPP.2022.115228, PDF, HTML, XML, Downloads: 35 Views: 113 Supported by the National Social Science Foundation Autho...

黑影展 - Black, a Film Festival

May 12th, 2022

2022.05.20 - 05.22 @ C-LAB - Taiwan Sound Lab Due to their opposing characteristics, light and dark have been employed throughout the history of filmmaking to create shadow and visual effects. However, the visual characteristics of "black" often make us "blind" to it. From a re-exploration of the development of filmmaking techniques, there is ubiquitous use of black in film production and screening, from the effects of metallic silver grains to the evolution of formal film la...

Slavs and Tatars

September 1st, 2021

For nearly fifteen years, the collective Slavs and Tatars have been producing installations, sculptures, performative talks, and publications that address the relationship between language and the ever-shifting landscape of identity politics. Having started in 2006 as an informal reading group, Slavs and Tatars’ remit of research is, as their name suggests, the not-so-small region "east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China." The artists’ practice unearths the ways in ...

Eat vinegar, Jesus Christ, and Middle Persian

November 22nd, 2020

I've always been intrigued by the Chinese expression "eat vinegar" (chīcù 吃醋) meaning "be jealous". To convey the idea of "jealous", one can also say dùjì 妒忌 or just dù 妒 (note the female semantophore). I learned the disyllabic form with the syllables reversed, hence jìdù 忌妒. The monosyllabic form (dù 妒) is ancient, going back to classical times. I said jìdù 忌妒 instead of dùjì 妒忌 because the former is what all my Chinese friends and relatives said, though m...

You will be advanced socially, without any special effort on your part

March 25th, 2020

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