The banal nationalism of Japanese cinema: The making of Pride and the idea of India

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The 1998 Japanese movie 'Pride: The Fateful Moment' is examined since it reintroduces into Japanese popular culture and projects positively Tojo Hideki, Japan's war-time leader who was tried and executed for war crimes in 1948. It projects the nationalism as 'banal' or always prevalent, taken for granted and not cultivated, and also uses the symbolism of Tojo's relations to the Indian independence movement and Indian leaders in order to lend him a positive projective identification, thus also representing in an indirect way the nationalist project of the film.

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Cinderella dances Swan Lake: Reading Billy Elliot as fairytale

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The film Billy Elliot (2000) is analyzed as a fairytale since it closely resembles the fairytale Cinderella. The Cinderella motif becomes a platform for expressing a hope that might be dismissed as unrealistic, in that both Billy Elliot and Cinderella represent patience, forbearance and hard work, being rewarded in a way more than hoped for, and in addition, gender stereotypes are dispelled in Billy Elliot when his appearance as a dancer in a traditional female role in the ballet Swan Lake is accepted.

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Boogie opera: Eddie, Douzi, and artistic convention

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The films Boogie Nights and Farewell My Concubine are analyzed and compared.

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