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Miniature of Adapting Greek Heroines: Penelope and Medea
Adapting Greek Heroines: Penelope and Medea
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      Date: 2020-01-01

      Creator: Ishani Agarwal

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        The Scars of War: The Demonic Mother as a Conduit for Expressing Victimization, Collective Guilt, and Forgiveness in Postwar Japanese Film, 1949-1964

        Date: 2017-05-01

        Creator: Sophia Walker

        Access: Open access

        Contemporary American viewers are familiar with the vengeful and terrifying ghost women of recent J-Horror films such as Ringu (Nakata Hideo, 1998) and Ju-On (Shimizu Takashi, 2002). Yet in Japanese theater and literature, the threatening ghost woman has a long history, beginning with the neglected Lady Rokujo in Lady Murasaki’s 11th century novel The Tale of Genji, who possesses and kills her rivals. Throughout history, the Japanese ghost mother is hideous and pitiful, worthy of fear as well as sympathy, traits that authors and filmmakers across the centuries have exploited. This project puts together four films that have never before been discussed together -- Kinoshita Keisuke's Shinsaku Yotsuya Kaidan (1949), Nakagawa Nobuo's Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan (1959) Mizoguchi Kenji's Ugetsu (1953), and Shindo Kaneto's Onibaba (1964) -- and discusses them as four different iterations of the demonic mother motif, presented as a projection of the Japanese collective’s postwar uncertainty over both the memory of suffering during World War II and the question of personal culpability.


        Miniature of Art of the Profile: Profile Journalism in Theory and Practice
        Art of the Profile: Profile Journalism in Theory and Practice
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          • Embargo End Date: 2028-05-18

          Date: 2023-01-01

          Creator: Halina E. Bennet

          Access: Embargoed