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He was a special forces soldier, so he retired and returned to his hometown. He only wanted to live a normal life but a trouble had him embroiled in a gang battle. Since he couldn't calm down, then he might as well do it.
The alleyway was lined with eight-story rental houses on both sides. Because of the large number of residents, the social situation was complex, and the sanitation was poor. Garbage was scattered between the rows of houses, emitting a foul stench. Every now and then, a couple of prostitutes would stand at one of the alleyway's entrances, occasionally asking passersby if they wanted to play. A boy, probably eleven or twelve years old, walked nervously through the alley, his tense expression adding a slightly oppressive feeling to the surrounding air.
A new critical approach to cinema and media based on Buddhism as a philosophical discourse How can a philosophical discourse generated in Asia help us reframe and renew cinema and media theory? Cinema Illuminating Reality provides a possible way to do this by using Buddhist ideas to examine the intricate relationship between technicity and consciousness in the cinema. The resulting dialogue between Buddhism and Euro-American philosophy is the first of its kind in film and media studies. Victor Fan examines cinema’s ontology and ontogenetic formation and how such a formational process produces knowledge, political agency, and in-aesthetics. Buddhism allows Fan to deconstruct binary thinking...
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Presents an assessment of Bei Dao as a Chinese poet. Through a reading of a selection of his poems, this book constructs a conceptual roadmap of Bei Dao's complex poetics.
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