Wednesday, June 12, 2013

editing tips (2)


This proliferation of media was accompanied by an explosion of information and a multiplication of information channels

cinema was attributed a sort of “plasticity”  
( attribute   vs   bestow with)

were understood as counteracting the oppression of “human nature”

accompanied by

on the one hand, and on the other hand

Criticized as a “dematerialization” of the body, the view of the body often encounters various kinds of resistance. 

the human body attains an organic harmony with (no "the" )nature

Such a criticism of dematerialization is levied not to recover an integral, organic body

the preternaturally capable doctor Fangfang cannot communicate effectively at all beyond her narrow professional setting

To “Metal Head,” poetry-writing is no different than any other programmed activities

per se

information spaces and living space interpenetrate

just like intelligent machines that are never turned off

no longer riven by ideological conflicts

in the late 1980s

proposed the term “postsocialism” as a means of conceptualizing 

as (no particle) evidence of

conceived of the close-up and editing as parallels to cognitive activities

center upon

part-in-parcel of 

applaude (transitive verb) sth

the divorce of film from drama 

testify to

assumptions that lean heavily upon

work day and night for the cause of socialist construction


The fantasy of transforming the temporality of the human body maintains some degree of continuity with the pervasive imagery of Maoist “iron” men and women,

Xiaomei accidentally becomes the first human being to be experimented on with the machine.


elude the consciousness of the individual effected    


its language had to be modernized by way of the terminologies of modern sciences its language had to be modernized by way of the terminologies of modern sciences

cling to the “two above all” principle

abbreviation for 

is facilitated by a high-tech gadget

the computer will do whatever you intend.

the concurrent craze for qigong and extrasensory powers 

in (no the)1980s China

This phenomenon evinces the indispensable role of new scientific and technological imaginaries in the cultural fever of the 1980s.

The black box becomes a fetish object

Her strong wish to overcome her humble origins by way of higher education

a pair of round-toed shoes

The discovery of this other world flips the initial premises of the story.

there was no passport to global citizenship for intellectuals like Dr. Di than the “universal” language of science.

the commonly seen questions

The sisters are confined in observation rooms

Circumscribed by their limited perspectives, the story appears as an elliptical narrative

 it is as if the substance of their brains were exposed to the air

Even the spontaneity of thinking is interfered with by external forces.

a probe into the mystery of history

an unidentified military force

uses him as a test subject for a new biological weapon

tamper with its metabolic cycle

the body no longer occupies a secure realm of knowledge about the world around

What could be more disorienting than a situation in which what one experiences as four seconds is in reality four hours?

He is denied any pleasure.      vs.   be deprived of

the conflictually charged reconfiguration between 


nip any human rebellion against its dominion in the bud

This story becomes a running joke among his classmates, especially when it becomes known that his mother has been institutionalized for mental illness

Set someone for ridicule


this Sky Net keeps its boy inventor company like a best friend

Lin Caihong, the assistant to Fangfang’s designer An Xiang

on New Year’s Eve

(no "the" )  society

The domestic space and personal life invisible in “Brotherly Love” resurfaces here with a vengeance

a repulsion towards

the modernist aesthetic of abstract streamlined sets and geometric graphics of Black Cannon Incident

a strategy pitched to free Western modernism from its negative associations in the official discourse


should be the proper focus of current discussion

Li Tuo adjusted his standpoint by asserting that the sheer variety of Western modernism would not allow for its characterization as a coherent group with a stable set of techniques. If there was anything shared by variegated, often self-contradictory modernist works, it was their rebellion against traditional Western values. 

in the earlier discussion 

just as he freezes in confusion about what to do


















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