Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition)

• Articles • Previous Articles     Next Articles

The Shanghai "Gesture": Hollywood Exports a "Slanted" Image of China

Richard Jewell   

  1. School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, California 90089,US
  • Received:2007-11-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2008-03-15 Published:2008-03-15
  • Contact: Richard Jewell

Abstract: The paper discusses cinematic representations of Shanghai and of the Chinese people in American movies made in the 1930s and 1940s and the reactions of Chinese audiences and government officials to these representations, and explores whether these portrayals jeopardized the relation between the United States and China at a crucial juncture in the development of China in the twentieth century.

Key words: slanted images of China, cinematic representations, Hollywood

CLC Number: