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Kurosawa’s Stray Dog: A Post-War Parable for Self-Improvement
David Robinson | Oct. 14, 2020 Film noir is almost inexplicably a reaction to the horrors of WWII. The dark realism and paranoia inherent to the genre are definitely in response to the international traumas felt during the 1940s. While it’s known as an American genre, influenced by the German refugees and given a name…
Finding our Way Home: Teshigahara’s Woman in the Dunes
By David Robinson | October 7, 2020 Hiroshi Teshigahara lived during one of Japan’s most turbulent periods. He was 18 at the end of World War II and graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts in 1950. While he eventually embraced and explored the traditional cultural elements of his nation by taking the reins…
Haruki Murakami and the Never-Ending Struggle Against Stagnation
David Robinson / Sept 30, 2020 Despite the popular representation of college as a time of freedom and growth, my college years were miserable. They were marred by family tragedy and encapsulated mostly by lonely nights with a textbook. Within that time I was given my introduction to Haruki Murakami, the now famous (and probably…
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