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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