Hollywood's Hong Kong
Cold War Imagery and Urban Transformation in Edward Dmytryk'sSoldier of Fortune
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2163302 |
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| Authors | Thomas Y T Luk (Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 138-148 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08949468.2013.852918 |
| OpenAlex | W1969876132 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
The essay explores the representation of Hong Kong in the film, Soldier of Fortune [Dmytryk 1955 Dmytryk , Edward (dir.) 1955 Soldier of Fortune . Starring Clark Gable , Susan Hayward , Michael Rennie , and Gene Barry . Hollywood : Twentieth Century Fox Film; B & W , 96 mins. [Google Scholar]] against the backdrop of the Cold War politics of the 1950s. Dwelling on the theme of cinema and the city, it brings in the enquiry of geography and film studies to analyze how space, geographical or imaginary, functions to reveal issues of gender, race, class and ideology. Soldier of Fortune produces a highly Orientalized vision of the city and its inhabitants, with an indexical representation of the film medium and exoticized “Other” for an audience with a Cold War mind-set, thus fulfilling its propaganda role in the battle of cultures between the East and the West
Ancient history · Art history · Battle · Cold war · Hollywood · Ideology · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · The Imaginary · Theme (computing · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
| Highly cited | No |
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