Shanghai da xiyuan: jiechu didai de kongjian shijian 上海大戏院:接触地带的空间实践(1917-1937)

Translated title of the contribution: The Isis Theater in Shanghai: Spatial practice in the Contact Zone, 1917-1937

Xuelei Huang, Binwu Jia, Peiyao Ji

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Abstract

Drawing upon the concept of contact zone, this essay begins with an analysis of the geographical location of the Isis, a nearly no man’s land over which neither of the foreign and Chinese authorities could exercise full administrative control. The following sections examine two cases, the screenings of the Hollywood film The Thief of Bagdad, which contains derogatory descriptions of the Chinese, and the exhibition of Soviet films, most of which were forbidden in the foreign concessions. These cases illustrate how the Isis worked as a contact zone and engaged with the competing discourses of colonialism vs. nationalism and bourgeois capitalism vs. socialist ideology.
Translated title of the contributionThe Isis Theater in Shanghai: Spatial practice in the Contact Zone, 1917-1937
Original languageChinese (Simplified)
Pages (from-to)122-129
JournalFilm Art 电影艺术
Volume2021
Issue number5
Publication statusPublished - 4 Nov 2021

Keywords

  • Isis
  • contact zone
  • spatiality
  • history of movie theatre
  • Shanghai theatre

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