inferiority’. (Said, 1993) Asian women were feminized and seen as docile and shy, with this notion carried over into books, films and advertisements still seen today. This in turn desensitized society, with any mention of cultural appropriation dismissed without a second glance. This essay hence intends to examine how the misconstrued idea of the Asian female form can be debunked and made positive, as well as observing the effects this
dispositions the viewer is fundamental to this cultural subjectivism, since he can be either inferred as a citizen, a migrant or a connoisseur (mostly thought be a Westerner). Annie Coombes and Nestor Garcia Canclini examine this cultural relativism in curatorial and museum practices and how it is stretched to truss over a post colonial rhetoric of decolonization and self determination. Annie Coombes in her essay takes up the issue of such curatorial
resources through which we constitute a common culture and through the appropriation of which we insert ourselves into this culture. Media spectacles demonstrate who has power and who is powerless, who is allowed to exercise force and violence, and who is not. They dramatize
To what extent was the May-Fourth Movement a Chinese Enlightenment movement? I. Introduction May-Fourth Movement is an important intellectual and cultural movement that had a great influence towards China. Originally, the movement was carried out by university students, which aimed at protesting against the government decisions towards the Shandong Province, in which Japan had been given the right to overtake the control, despite China being one of the winning countries after World War I. The
Predominantly a discussion on the style of the Hindi film music, the essay also has sections on film music of regional films as well as, as a lead up to his focus, a discussion on popular music outside the realm of cinema. What distinguishes Manuel’s work is his concern for the “popular”. He expresses doubt as to whether
devoid of ulterior motive or satirical impulse, i.e. it is satisfied with the appropriation of previous fashions or styles, without attempt to mock or critique them. Based on the death of subject and the impossibility of parody, the notion of pastiche, however, arouses the question about the boundary: to what extent and in what context can the hypothesis function? Using The Longest Nite (1998) as an example, this essay will try to evaluate to what extent a postmodern movie can or cannot fit into
This essay will be focusing on the statement made by John E. Vollmer, “Cultural authentication in dress is a process of assimilation through which a garment or an accessory external to a culture is adopted and changed. With this change, over time, the artifact becomes a vital, valued part of the adopting culture’s dress”. In this argument, will look at this process with three examples. There will be three different example: ear and facial piercings in the current world for aesthetic purposes, a fashion
In the following essay, I will be conducting a research project, by examining golliwogs from the children literature – Noddy by British children’s author Enid Blyton. Published between 1949 and 1963 as children’s literature, and aired as a television show in 1955 for decades. I will be analysing the physical attributes of the golliwogs depicted in Noddy, in relations to other discourses of representation of humans, such as minstrel blackface performance from the 1840s in America and Europe. By discussing