Euthanasia among quadriplegics: a containment of autonomy in disability cinema by Cheang, Wai Yee

“…In the 2016 film Me Before You, the quadriplegic character advises his able-bodied love interest to “[l]ive boldly […] Just live well. Just live” (Me Before You). …”
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Fresh like a flower, invisible like peace: locating Phuong Within the orientalist margins of Graham Greene's The Quiet American by See Tow, Alexis York Ian

“…Scholarship argues that Phuong, the main female love interest caught between two men, is trapped in and subjected to the cage of the Oriental gaze. …”
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Lovestruck by Lau, Siew Ying Grace

“…LOVESTRUCK tells a story of two characters who went through a series of events while trying to chase after their love interests.…”
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A discussion about beauty, eroticism and the significance of muscle in Simone de Beauvoir’s the second sex and Yukio Mishima’s forbidden colours and confessions of a mask by Teo, Gerald Emmanuel

“…The former is a work of classical feminism that was written in 1949 and that addresses the question of why women all over the world in the 1940s occupied an inferior position to men whereas the latter are both gay-themed novels that were written in 1951 and 1949, respectively and that tell respectively, the story of an ugly, old novelist named Shunsuke Hinoki who uses a young and beautiful homosexual named Yuichi Minami to exact revenge on several of his former love interests and the story of a self-identified invert named Kochan who struggles to reconcile the demands placed upon him by his sexuality with the demands placed upon him by his society.…”
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