Author: John ColtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Shanghai Gesture
Author: John ColtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The story centers around a madam who runs a Shanghai brothel, a British businessman, and the assorted and powerful Chinese and foreign businessmen and politicians of the city. This play was made into a much censored movie.
The Shanghai Gesture
Author: John ColtonThe Shanghai Gesture
Author: The Shanghai Gesture
Author: The Shanghai Gesture
Author: Archer TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shanghai gesture
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Shanghai Gesture
Author: Robin PeckhamThe Shanghai gesture
Author: John ColtonThe Shanghai Gesture
Author: Gary IndianaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780982015100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A mysterious bout of narcolepsy has overtaken the seaside hamlet of Land's End, a problem endemic to the region since the shipwreck of the Ardent Somdomite a century ago. Inspector Weymouth Smith and unconvinced cohort, Dr. Obregon Petrie, attempt to thwart Fu Manchu's latest ploy for world domination while confronting South American Piyas and matching wits with a club-footed ex-Stasi, as well as battling the latest technological crazes and their own drug dependencies.
The Shanghai gesture
Author: Archer TaylorLost in Translation
Author: Homay KingPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822392925
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In a nuanced exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indecipherability, Homay King traces the long-standing association of the Orient with the enigmatic. The fantasy of an inscrutable East, she argues, is not merely a side note to film history, but rather a kernel of otherness that has shaped Hollywood cinema at its core. Through close readings of The Lady from Shanghai, Chinatown, Blade Runner, Lost in Translation, and other films, she develops a theory of the “Shanghai gesture,” a trope whereby orientalist curios and décor become saturated with mystery. These objects and signs come to bear the burden of explanation for riddles that escape the Western protagonist or cannot be otherwise resolved by the plot. Turning to visual texts from outside Hollywood which actively grapple with the association of the East and the unintelligible—such as Michelangelo Antonioni’s Chung Kuo: Cina, Wim Wenders’s Notebook on Cities and Clothes, and Sophie Calle’s Exquisite Pain—King suggests alternatives to the paranoid logic of the Shanghai gesture. She argues for the development of a process of cultural “de-translation” aimed at both untangling the psychic enigmas prompting the initial desire to separate the familiar from the foreign, and heightening attentiveness to the internal alterities underlying Western subjectivity.