Word: mythical
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...heard the propaganda: Zombies Are the New Vampires. Once relegated to back-list B movies like I Walked With a Zombie and Night of the Living Dead, those slow-moving, post-mortem drudges of West African mythic origin are now the hot horror creature. The PR is positively zombastic. They have their own anthem - Zombies Are the New Black, by the Philly pop-punk sextet The Wonder Years - and their own music video, which you may have seen in the past month or so: Michael Jackson's Thriller. The Walking Dead have even been invoked as emblems of our current...
...from knits to video to sculpture. Lien is including a video collaboration with J. Lorenzo Camacho ’07, a teaching assistant for the VES department; the film, “A Preemptive Maneuver” follows Vivid Luster, the alter ego of Lien and Camacho, on a mythic journey throughout the West. One of Kase’s featured pieces is a necklace, which she used as a medium because she believes it to be an object charged with notions of gender, race, and class that are often related to hip-hop. The exhibition’s broad...
...turn around, and walk back.In “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh,” written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (“Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story”) and loosely based on Michael Chabon’s debut 1988 novel of the same name, this mythic summer is distilled into 80 minutes of saccharine images and angsty declamations. Coming of age in Thurber’s colorful, melodramatic Pittsburgh is more of an unattainable ideal than an actual transformation of moral fiber. While they do their best to push the boundaries of their young existence, Thurber?...
Depending on the source, Japan's mythic "Lost Decade" lasted from 1989 to 2003, or sometime later if the exact bottom of the real estate market in the Asian nation is taken into account. Because the period began with easy access to capital followed by a sharp drop in the stock market and property values, it is now being compared to what many economists believe began in the US two years ago. They fear, probably with good reason, that GDP growth will simply stay in a narrow band of extremely modest growth or no growth at all and the lack...
...registers. Perhaps the novel’s greatest weakness is its inability to truly create characters. Leave aside the enigmatic narrator; the other characters in the book exist only as prose descriptions, devoid of any psychological complexity or, even, thought. This is not typically a genre convention of the mythic allegory, and it greatly hampers Rodoreda’s attempt at the creation of a satisfying fictional universe. Whether the novel’s emotional gap is a result of Tennent’s translation or Rodoreda original work, other aspects of the novel are simply inaccessible to readers outside...