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Short Answers (4 questions x 5 = 20): type your answers, each<\/u> limited to 6 lines (NOT 6 sentences). <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Everyone must do numbers 1-2. <\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Explain how Big Shot\u2019s Funeral<\/u> makes fun of rampant commercialism in the following two (2) scenes: Tyler\u2019sreincarnation as a black boy; an insane businessman defining who counts as a successful person. What is Feng Xiaogang\u2019s position on commercialism (e.g., supportive, critical, or else)?<\/p>\n 2. Explain how 24 City<\/u> perceives urban transformation in the following two (2) scenes: workers singing in a large auditorium; Zhao Tao\u2019s character in her Volkswagen beetle car in an empty lot. What is Jia Zhangke\u2019s evaluation of socialist legacy (e.g., nostalgic, critical, or else)?<\/p>\n Then choose two (2) others from numbers 3-6 that you did NOT discuss in your term paper.<\/strong><\/p>\n 3. Describe how you interpret these two (2) details from Plunder of Peach and Plum<\/u>: the child is abandoned at an orphanage; the old principal visits the imprisoned former student. What message does the film send by ending in tragedy?<\/p>\n 4. Cite two (2) examples from It\u2019s My Day Off<\/u> to illustrate how the film emphasizes the importance of everyone helping others. What reward does the model policeman get in the end and why is it important?<\/p>\n 5. Discuss the meanings of these two (2) details from Ermo<\/u>: Ermo repeatedly sells her blood; Ermo dozes off while the TV screen shows nothing. What is the film\u2019s judgment on Ermo\u2019s success in postsocialist China?<\/p>\n 6. Explain your interpretation of these two (2) examples from Suzhou River<\/u>: Mada and Mudan die in an accident; the videographer refuses to look for the disappeared Meimei. What is the director\u2019s overall view of Shanghai?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Short Answers (4 questions x 5 = 20): type your answers, each limited to 6 lines (NOT 6 sentences). Everyone must do numbers 1-2. 1. Explain how Big Shot\u2019s Funeral makes fun of rampant commercialism in the following two (2) scenes: Tyler\u2019sreincarnation as a black boy; an insane businessman defining who counts as a successful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_joinchat":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}