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Roaring 20s Azlan Zhang Ms. Petersen 17   February 2025 1.   (Society) This 1926 photograph capturing NBC's first nationwide broadcast shows an announcer reading President Coolidge's speech while technicians operate a 500-watt transmitter with a 4,000-kilometer coverage range. Positive event: As a transformative event, radio reshaped America's cultural landscape. From merely 5 stations in 1920, the number surged to 606 by 1929, with radio ownership rate reaching 60%. The pric

Psychoanalysis, as a theoretical paradigm of literary criticism, often leaves people unsure of what it is actually trying to say. Many of its terms are completely detached from the context of our everyday language, yet critics use them without explanation, and their meanings seem to continuously shift depending on usage. This perfectly exemplifies Wittgenstein’s statement that “the meaning of a word lies in its use.” Among these terms, the most widely known one is probably th

— How Low-Budget Science Fiction Films Are Made — Science Fiction Gives Way to the Absurd After watching this film for the first time, I believe many elements will have left a deep impression on us: ·       • The Hello Kitty humidifier on the desk; ·       • Jump cuts with unclear meaning; ·       • The elusive interviewer; ·       • Camera movements shakier than Wong Kar-wai's; ·       • Dialects; ·       • Sun Yitong's poetry and the pot on his head; ·       • The inexplica

(The preface wrote for the Shanyou Langqin Chinese Poetry Collective's 2025 Annual Magazine) Why write? Shi Tiesheng said: "I write in...

Critic David D. Galloway said, “Wherever Holden turns, his craving for truth seems to be frustrated by the phoniness of the world.” Analyze Holden’s use of the word “phony.” What does the word mean in the context of the book, and does Holden offer any alternative to phoniness? Is Holden himself guilty of being a phony? How does Salinger want readers to judge ideas about phoniness?   From the moment Holden dares not call Jane, he has already failed, and failed repeatedly. He d

Is Hester in Hawthorne's work a heroine? Some critics argue that Hester's silent endurance of the scarlet letter's shame deviates from...