This study of the modern film version of "Phantom of the Opera" employs a mythic theme to illustrate how women can involve themselves with charismatic and eroticized narcissistic men, who are unavailable for true relationship within the conscious world of societal connection. How can the healthy-heroic woman extricate herself from the seductive web of such men, men who seek to own the women--no...

Consumer culture theory helps us take note of the cultural forces and dynamics in which technology consumption is entangled. It enables people to articulate the cultural processes (ideological, mythic, ritualistic, etc.) through which cultural meanings become granted to or denied to technological innovations, thus shaping the value of technologies as cultural resources sustaining consumer ident...

Theories of communication abound. Most attempt to explain communication as if it were a uniform behavior which can be understood by a universal set of axioms or a set of unilinear variables. However, research in multicultural, intercultural, and cross-cultural communication has generated data that defy a singular theory or set of universal laws. The values of parsimony and heuristic scope that ...

With the release of Legend Deification, COLOROOM Pictures Company has made further progress in construction Mythic Universe. Two films, NeZha: Birth Demon Child and have subversively rewritten reconstructed mythic imagination China, combining strengthening self-concept reflection on social survival dilemma, which is line with current context audience expectations. The film pays attention to rea...