Week 1
I want to research more about post-colonialism. It has been a fascinating topic for me ever since I left my home country through a recent history of movies and animation as well as literature work. I start to develop a more comprehensive view of it. In fact, I want to take a deep look and research it. If everything goes well, I want to use this big topic for my thesis as well.
Therefore, in the next few months, I would like to form a critical report by looking at the history of animations from east Asia as well as east Asian descendants.
Week 2
Mise en scène
Mise en scène is a way of visual story-telling in theatre and cinema. It combines storyboarding, cinematography and the director’s artistic interpretation. Overall, Mise en scène includes all the creative aspects of a movie or theatre production.
Now it has become clearer to me that for the subject of my research, I will focus on a smaller one regarding the relatively big topic: post-colonialism. I would put my effort into nostalgia and remembrance in a specific type of animation. Still, I need time to evaluate and research more about animation and its theme.
After thinking about it, I decided to focus on nostalgia in the family rather than east Asia as a whole. I think the topic is far too big for me.
Here what I got:
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nostalgia and family in cinema
Nostalgia is a common yet tricky topic. It is restorative, reflective and sometimes sensible to touch. Nostalgia is more than a feeling for certain characters in some films. In Wes Anderson’s movie The Royal Tenenbaums, nostalgia invokes the characters’ yearning to rebuild and reconstruct what they missed. In my research, I’ll mainly focus on this movie about how nostalgia is presented through the film and what it means to be nostalgic in the context.
Key words:
Nostalgia Family Cinema narrative simulacra
Research of works:
Violating Time: History, Memory, and Nostalgia in Cinema. (2008). United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Stefano Baschiera (2012) Nostalgically man dwells on this earth: objects
and domestic space in TheRoyalTenenbaums and TheDarjeelingLtd , New Review of Film and
Television Studies, 10:1, 118-131, DOI: 10.1080/17400309.2011.633030
Banash, D., & Spain, A. (2022). Professional Life, Childhood, and Fantasy Solutions: Middle-Class Alienation in the Fiction of J. D. Salinger and the Films of Wes Anderson. Retrieved 18 October 2022, from https://post45.org/2021/06/professional-life-childhood-and-fantasy-solutions/