Landscape and agency: 'Yellow Earth' and the demon lover

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Landscape is the most significant character in Chen Kaige's 1984 film, 'Yellow Earth.' The film creates a public imaginary space as the landscape becomes a demon and a lover, demanding and rewarding whom it chooses. The landscape is more powerful than the combined forces of Man, Woman, and the Communist Party, and is able to devour them all. The national landscape can be loved by its rivals but is also their agent.

Landscape, Yellow Earth (Motion picture)

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Resisting with authority: historical specificity, agency and the performative self`

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Pierre Butler's theory of iterability works to endow the capacity to authorize against the grain of institutional authority with individuals and hence neglects the social contexts that inform and de-limit this capacity. 'Resisting with authority' is possible as it is not endowed by individuals or their acts, but is collective and interactional.

United States, Evaluation, Social change, Feminism, Government, Resistance to, Government resistance

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Top 12 most luddite films of all time

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Some of the films considered by The Luddite Reader to be the most anti-technological films include "Metropolis," "Gattaca," "Terminator," "Brazil," "Blade Runner" and "Frankenstein."

World, Technology, Luddites

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