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I'm working on a paper for my China and Its Neighbors class about representations of Tibet in Western and Chinese culture (how Orientalist attitudes are or aren't reflected in both, how a region's struggle for independence becomes commercialized, etc). Since I like doing my own analyses of stuff, my primary sources include Seven Years in Tibet, Kundun, and Dreaming Lhasa.
Now, Twin Peaks fans (I'm lookin' at you,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
agonistes and gao): How would you personally describe the way Lynch uses Tibet as a narrative device/character element? And if I were going to look at a specific episode or two, what would you recommend?
Thank you, folken. :D
(Doing research for this kind of shamefully makes me want to go out and buy some prayer flags. The commercial cultural system: you're part of it!)
I'm working on a paper for my China and Its Neighbors class about representations of Tibet in Western and Chinese culture (how Orientalist attitudes are or aren't reflected in both, how a region's struggle for independence becomes commercialized, etc). Since I like doing my own analyses of stuff, my primary sources include Seven Years in Tibet, Kundun, and Dreaming Lhasa.
Now, Twin Peaks fans (I'm lookin' at you,
agonistes and gao): How would you personally describe the way Lynch uses Tibet as a narrative device/character element? And if I were going to look at a specific episode or two, what would you recommend?Thank you, folken. :D
(Doing research for this kind of shamefully makes me want to go out and buy some prayer flags. The commercial cultural system: you're part of it!)