Media Round Up: It's Been a While
Nov. 18th, 2021 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forestofgloryI haven’t done a media round up in a long time. I’ve been having trouble reading and watching new things. I’m trying to be ok with that, but it's frustrating. Anyways, here's some thoughts on what I’ve read and watched in the last month and a half.
Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways by Jin Feng— This like fanstudies book if food was the fandom. So I found it really interesting! (The author has also written a couple of books about webnovels) The books focuses on famous restaurants and food writing. There’s a lot here about nostalgia and food.
Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition by Stephen Teo— This the book about the history of wuxia that I mentioned last media round up. Some bit of this where over my head but I still found it helpful in contextualizing the wuxia I’ve been reading and watching recently. There’s a lot about gender in here, but I wish there was a bit more about queerness. What there was focused on the anglophone queer reception of wuxia. I also found this useful as kind of lit review. There’s just a lot of citations and it helped me understand the academic conversation better.
Fly on the Wall by Remy Lai— A kind of hybrid books graphic novel. Mostly text, with illustrations and comic panels mixed in. About a 12 year old boy who sneaks off from Perth to visit his dad in singapore. I got some second hand embarrassment for some of it, but mostly it was cute and sweet.
Yotsuba&!, #15 by Kiyohiko Azuma— I was happy that preordered the most recent volume of this adorable slice of life manga. Reading it made me laugh a lot! I
Mulan (2013)— I’ve been wanting to try this for a while, because Jenette Ng wrote about different Mulan adaptations and described this one as being half about weaving a banner. I do like the textiles but everything is so melodramatic Its been five episodes and Mulan has almost died twice, her dad has almost died once, her mother has been falsely accused on murder, and its all just a bit over the top for. So I’m not sure if I’m going to watch more.
Russian Doll— I watched this as part of my time loop project. The way the time loop was handled was fun and interesting, but I found the characters frustrating. Some it is just that they are not SFF protagonists so their approaches to their problems didn’t meet my genre expectations. But that’s really on me.
Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways by Jin Feng— This like fanstudies book if food was the fandom. So I found it really interesting! (The author has also written a couple of books about webnovels) The books focuses on famous restaurants and food writing. There’s a lot here about nostalgia and food.
Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition by Stephen Teo— This the book about the history of wuxia that I mentioned last media round up. Some bit of this where over my head but I still found it helpful in contextualizing the wuxia I’ve been reading and watching recently. There’s a lot about gender in here, but I wish there was a bit more about queerness. What there was focused on the anglophone queer reception of wuxia. I also found this useful as kind of lit review. There’s just a lot of citations and it helped me understand the academic conversation better.
Fly on the Wall by Remy Lai— A kind of hybrid books graphic novel. Mostly text, with illustrations and comic panels mixed in. About a 12 year old boy who sneaks off from Perth to visit his dad in singapore. I got some second hand embarrassment for some of it, but mostly it was cute and sweet.
Yotsuba&!, #15 by Kiyohiko Azuma— I was happy that preordered the most recent volume of this adorable slice of life manga. Reading it made me laugh a lot! I
Mulan (2013)— I’ve been wanting to try this for a while, because Jenette Ng wrote about different Mulan adaptations and described this one as being half about weaving a banner. I do like the textiles but everything is so melodramatic Its been five episodes and Mulan has almost died twice, her dad has almost died once, her mother has been falsely accused on murder, and its all just a bit over the top for. So I’m not sure if I’m going to watch more.
Russian Doll— I watched this as part of my time loop project. The way the time loop was handled was fun and interesting, but I found the characters frustrating. Some it is just that they are not SFF protagonists so their approaches to their problems didn’t meet my genre expectations. But that’s really on me.
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Date: 2021-11-18 07:39 pm (UTC)