Tag: Society
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“Hunter × Hunter”‘s Heavens Arena as a Metaphor For the Late Capitalist Class System
Heavens Arena is a 251-story, 991-meter building and a mecca for fighters, as explained by the narrator in the Hunter × Hunter 2011 anime series. The rules are rather simple. If you win a fight, you climb 10 stories higher, but if you lose one, you descend 10 stories. Based on the referee’s assessment of…
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In Yasujirô Ozu’s Words: The Change of Seasons
I tried to show the collapse of the Japanese family system through showing children growing up. Yasujirô Ozu Ozu’s post-war work, during the time when he made his most memorable films, is characterized by the same theme which is presented over and over. In his own words, he presents the “collapse of the Japanese family…
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In Gustave Le Bon’s Words: Cinema and Crowd Psychology
„Crowds being only capable of thinking in images are only to be impressed by images. It is only images that terrify or attract them and become motives of action. For this reason theatrical representations[1], in which the image is shown in its most clearly visible shape, always have an enormous influence on crowds. Bread and…
