Over the course of last three decades, Latvian cinema has experienced significant changes. Since country’s renewal of independence and return to Europe many socio-political transformations took ...place. Film industry also changed a lot. In the 21st century films mostly are made on the basis of digital technology; film directors can freely choose the subjects of the films. We may presume that the characters portrayed on the screen have undergone changes, for example, representation of mother, father and coming-of-age young people. However, have these changes truly occurred?
The essay will focus on coming-of-age story “The Pit”, made by Latvian film director Dace Puce (Dace Pūce) (2020). Melodrama elements or – the backbone of melodrama can be recognized in the aesthetics of the film. The analyses of film will be based on article by Linda Williams “Mega-Melodrama! Vertical and Horizontal Suspensions of the “Classical””, where the author points out four features of nowadays melodrama. Although melodrama resonates with many social problems which are articulated according to aesthetics of melodrama, multiple stereotypes can be identified in the film when analysing the plot, the image of the victim and the way the viewers sympathy is directed to.
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This study aims to identify maxim utterance in Bildungsroman novel entitled Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami as well as translation technique used. Another purpose is to know the value of “coming of ...age.” This is a qualitative study which means the data were collected through document review from two sources; research object and rater assessment. The result shows that there are nine translation technique applied, they are: Established Equivalent, Amplification: Explicitation and Paraphrase, Reduction, Variation, Creation Discursive, Modulation, Paraphrase, Pure Borrowing, Generalization, Linguistic Compression: Implicitation. Regarding to quality of accuracy, acceptability, and readability, the following findings are shown as follows: accurate: 80%, less accurate 10%, not accurate 10%, acceptable 100%, less acceptable 0 %, not acceptable 0 %, readable 100 %, less readable 0%, and not readable 0%.
Eighteen. Twenty-one. Sixty-five. In America today, we recognize these numbers as key transitions in our lives-precise moments when our rights and opportunities change-when we become eligible to cast ...a vote, buy a drink, or enroll in Medicare.This volume brings together scholars of childhood, adulthood, and old age to explore how and why particular ages have come to define the rights and obligations of American citizens.
Since the founding of the nation, Americans have relied on chronological age to determine matters as diverse as who can marry, work, be enslaved, drive a car, or qualify for a pension. Contributors to this volume explore what meanings people in the past ascribed to specific ages and whether or not earlier Americans believed the same things about particular ages as we do. The means by which Americans imposed chronological boundaries upon the variable process of growing up and growing old offers a paradigmatic example of how people construct cultural meaning and social hierarchy from embodied experience. Further, chronological age always intersects with other socially constructed categories such as gender, race, and sexuality. Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, taking up a variety of distinct subcultures-from frontier children and antebellum slaves to twentieth-century Latinas-Age in America makes a powerful case that age has always been a key index of citizenship.
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