The major treated topic comprises the influence of the used support on the physical properties of the layers.
Mr. Dower, a historian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, draws out the occupation's deep effects on Japanese society, treating topics like prostitution, the postwar role of Emperor Hirohito and the emergence of a brand of state capitalism with a close relationship between government and business.
Japan is the other principal subject for Mr. Buruma, and he takes several different bearings on that country, treating topics as varied as sadomasochism among early 20th-century writers, the sexual fantasies of the filmmaker Nagisa Oshima and Michael Crichton's anti-Japanese novel "Rising Sun" (which Mr. Buruma compares to German works of the 1930's showing the supposed menace of the Jews).
His moralizing plays (Von einem Wirthe [1593; "Of an Innkeeper"]; Von einem Buler und einer Bulerin [1593; "Of Two Lovers"]; Von einer Ehebrecherin [1594; "Of an Adulteress"]), written for his personal troupe and influenced by the English tradition, treat topics of everyday middle-class life in a realistic style.
In his works on the philosophy of science Poincaré treats topics in this hierarchical order first arithmetic, then geometry, then physics, etc.
This helps to explain why al-Fārābī does not indulge in the philosophical explanation of the Qurʼān, and why in the political works does he treat topics pertinent to religion from a strictly philosophical point of view, with no concession to religious terminology or theological motives.
Specifically, as in an analysis of the multitrait-multimethod matrix (Campbell and Fiske 1959), we use the CT-CM (correlated trait-correlated method) model (e.g., Widaman 1985) with categorical (binary) indicators, treating topics as trait factors and grades as method factors (see Fig. 1).
Literary theorist Frances K. Barasch described Voltaire's matter-of-fact narrative as treating topics such as mass death "as coolly as a weather report".
But it's striking in journalism how this affects content – local London stories being treated as topics of national interest, Port Talbot being viewed as somewhere just outside Mars, an awful lot of quinoa – so it seems improbable that it doesn't in TV and film too.
