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Nagayama, Chikako.

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Fantasy of empire: Ri Koran, subject positioning and the cinematic construction of space.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Fantasy of empire: Ri Koran, subject positioning and the cinematic construction of space./
Author:	Nagayama, Chikako.
Description:	175 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-06, Section: A, page: 1835.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-06A.
Subject:	Asian Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR61129
ISBN:	9780494611296

Fantasy of empire: Ri Koran, subject positioning and the cinematic construction of space.
Nagayama, Chikako.

Fantasy of empire: Ri Koran, subject positioning and the cinematic construction of space. - 175 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-06, Section: A, page: 1835.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2009.

This thesis emerged from my emotional, tactile, and intellectual access to the actress, Yamaguchi Yoshiko (a.k.a. Ri Koran or Li Xianglan), who embodied the cultural hybridity of Manchuria and represented a 'modern girl' on screen. I analyze four wartime melodrama-adventure films, in which she co-starred with Japanese actors: Song of the White Orchid (Byakuran no uta, 1939), China Nights (Shina no Yoru, 1940), Vow in the Desert (Nessa no chikai, 1940), and Suzhou Nights (Soshu no yoru, 1941).

ISBN: 9780494611296Subjects--Topical Terms:

1669375
Asian Studies.

Fantasy of empire: Ri Koran, subject positioning and the cinematic construction of space.
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520 $a This thesis emerged from my emotional, tactile, and intellectual access to the actress, Yamaguchi Yoshiko (a.k.a. Ri Koran or Li Xianglan), who embodied the cultural hybridity of Manchuria and represented a 'modern girl' on screen. I analyze four wartime melodrama-adventure films, in which she co-starred with Japanese actors: Song of the White Orchid (Byakuran no uta, 1939), China Nights (Shina no Yoru, 1940), Vow in the Desert (Nessa no chikai, 1940), and Suzhou Nights (Soshu no yoru, 1941).
520 $a The formation of domesticity played an integral part in the making of modern nation-states. Intertexualizing with the discursive formation of the i.e. (house/family) between the mid 19th and mid 20th centuries, I first demonstrate that Japanese film subjects are made to embody the imagined Imperial nation through gendered performances in Song of the White Orchid. The interior and exterior are constructed to mirror the notion of imperial nation and the Asian 'other'.
520 $a Next, I extend the analytical framework to the three films, China Nights, Vow in the Desert, and Suzhou Nights, which employ films' specific locations for different operations of gendered and ethnicized positioning. I also pay attention to some of the climaxes, which unconventionally present psychological dramas outdoors and action scenes indoors. Especially, my interest in this part of analysis is in interrelating metaphors of bodily boundary and national border. As delineating the signification of body and nation, I situate the relay of the gaze in the simultaneous blurring of bodily boundary and national communities that coincides with melodramatic highlights located outdoors.
520 $a In order to shape a Japanese imperial subject, the films symbolically negotiate with three levels of power dynamics: the establishment of a national identity, the mimicry of the West, and the significance of China in Japanese imperial modernity. The delineation of cinematic space and subject positioning in Ri Koran's films reveals that Chinese, Japanese and the West are constituted as shifting positions that respectively represent past/obstructions, present/a mobile agency, and future/the envisioned goal. Ri Koran attracts spectators' gaze and mediates multiple locations to identify with, while Japanese male protagonists embody the gaze by making his corporeality absent.
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