Category: Film
Socio-Political Influence on The Ideologies in Daniel Craig’s Bond Films: The Power That Lies Within
James Bond is arguably one of the widest-reaching, longest-standing and most influential film franchises of our time. In this sense …
Celebrity Cinema and Hallyu 2.0
Korean directors such as Im Kwon-Taek are synonymous with Korean national Cinema. They have raised the country’s cultural profile internationally …
Depiction of the Good and Evil Conflict through Female Characters in Turkish Cinema from Kezban to İklimler
The narrative cinema mainly focuses on such genres as love, good vs. evil conflict, reunion of lovers, and the story …
A Research Study of the Application of Digital Music in Taiwanese Films
The rapid progress of today's digital technology has made a great impact on the music creation in the film industry. …
One Big Happy Family? Subverting Reaganism in Peggy Sue Got Married
While much critical analysis has been done on films made during Ronald Reagan’s two terms in the White House (1980-1988), …
Luang Prabang Film Festival: 3 Years of Strength with the Power of Movie Fanatics to Enhance Filmmaking in Southeast Asia
The Luang Prabang Film Festival was founded in 2010 by Gabriel Kuperman, an American expat who had a strong passion …
Malaysian eStories: The Passing of Oral Traditions
With new media and mediums, the art of oral traditions such as storytelling has evolved. Children and youngsters today learn …
Applying an Evaluation Model for Media Performance On Taiwanese Cinema
The rise of huge Chinese markets leads to many movie entrepreneurs and professionals in Taiwan and Hong Kong transferring their …
Traditional Chinese Aesthetics in “Life of Pi”: An Analysis of Traditional Chinese Aesthetics in Ang Lee’s Films under Contemporary Context
With the rapid development of film market in China, more Hollywood films involving Chinese philosophy has begun to proliferate. This …
“Our Fear Has Taken on a Life of its Own”: The Monster-Child in Japanese Horror Film of The Lost Decade
The monstrous child of Japanese horror film has become perhaps the most transnationally recognisable and influential horror trope of the …
Retelling the Nation: Narrating the Nation through Biopics
Cinema plays a pivotal role in the negotiation and construction of national identity, selectively appropriating history, attempting to forge a …
Emotional Realism and Actuality: The Function of Prosumer and Social Media Aesthetics in Film Production
Studies of film spectatorship and production techniques have rarely ignored notions of Reality. From the psychoanalytical approaches of Baudry and …
Witnessing the Birth of Asian Hollywood through the Hong Kong Film Archive: An Informational Interview with the Head of the Hong Kong Film Archive
Hong Kong Chinese-language cinema has a century-old history. In comparison to cinema in China, Hong Kong enjoyed a greater degree …
Mapping Narrative Trajectories in Documentary Films
Documentary films may set out to be objective but most end up advocating a point of view (Fox 2011, Taibbi, …
Sound Used in the Movies: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Wong Kar-Wai’s Film Works
Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Wong Kar-Wai's film work has always been full of controversial topics. Their filming technique often raise extensive …