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Lost in Translation

Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier

Homay King

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English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04939178

Publishers Duke University Press, August 2010

In a nuanced exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indec... Full description

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In a nuanced exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indecipherability, Homay King traces a 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 decor 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 unintelligibleosuch as Michelangelo Antonioni's Chung Kuo: Cina, Wim Wenders' Notebook on Cities and Clothes, and Sophie Calle's Exquisite PainoKing 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.