The game industry often requires developers to work sixteen-hour days to meet pre-release deadlines. But reasonable hours are the key to productivity. In November 2004, a blogger behind the username ea_spouse, published an opinion piece describing the working-conditions of her husband at EA Games, one of the biggest game development companies in the world. She […]
Archives for March 2021
‘Minari’: A Reconsideration of American Cinema
When A24 released the trailer for Minari in 2020, I couldn’t finish watching it in its two-minutes-and-five-second entirety. Not because I hated it, but because my heart hurt from loving it so much that I dreaded the moment when the trailer would end. I knew that in American cinema, this kind of visibility for Korean […]
Chinese Nationalism on the Big Screen: Comparing Disney’s ‘Mulan’ (1998) to ‘Mulan’ (2020)
China has always appealed to U.S. businesses through its sheer size, but with the country’s increasing wealth, U.S. industries work to find new ways to appeal to their markets’ eager consumers. China is aiming to surpass the U.S. as the world’s wealthiest box office, and Hollywood has shifted its attention accordingly. In August of 2020, […]