You may use other research materials to help develop your argument\u2014course readings,
\nother journal articles, books, e-journals (academic\/refereed Web sites). Blogs, Wikipedia,
\nand the IMDB (Internet Movie Database) are not acceptable.<\/p>\n
Essay question: Perfect Blue incorporates many different genres: psychological thriller, quest-forindividuality, coming of age, slasher horror, and even crime\/mystery. As Tom Mes suggests,
\nhere \u201cmovies\u2026 serve as the catalyst for an increasingly confused reality\u201d (Mes, 2007: 48).
\nHow can we read Perfect Blue as not only a search for identity, but a comment on or critique
\nof the function of media (including other forms of technology) in influencing, building, or
\ncorrupting an \u2018independent\u2019 identity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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