【院生ゼミ】1月18日
【大学院】
This week's class is the last of the Autumn Quarter. We discuss several topics on the "Opera Jawa," an Indonesian film adaptation of the Ramayana.
Some of the topics we covered include:
- How is the Ramayana story embedded in the narrative of the film Opera Jawa?
- What are the differences between the Ramayana story (as we know it) and the story told in the film?
- What is the significance of the above-mentioned differences?
- What symbols or visual cues are used in the film, and what are their meanings?
- How relevant is the Ramayana story now in the predominantly Muslim Javanese society?
The due date of the term paper is on 25 January.
I wish you all a fruitful break until the beginning of the Spring quarter.