TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘A fabulous speck on the Earth’s surface’
T2 - Depictions of colonial Macao in 1950s’ Hollywood
AU - Lopes, Rui Miguel Ponte Vieira
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876/147250/PT#
IF/01579/2015
UID/HIS/04209/2013
PY - 2016/3/14
Y1 - 2016/3/14
N2 - Macao was featured in over a dozen Hollywood productions while under Portugal's domination, most of which were released in the 1950s. Drawing on multi-archival research, film studies and postcolonial theory, this article contextualizes the colony's screen presence before examining three high-profile productions: Macao (1952), Soldier of Fortune (1955), and Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), the latter two enabling a comparison with depictions of British rule in Hong Kong. The article contributes to the study of the international image of Portugal's empire, concluding that Macao's historical and geographical characteristics, as well as Hollywood's orientalist conventions and hyperbolic sense of spectacle, ended up conjuring an overall image of ‘subaltern colonialism’
AB - Macao was featured in over a dozen Hollywood productions while under Portugal's domination, most of which were released in the 1950s. Drawing on multi-archival research, film studies and postcolonial theory, this article contextualizes the colony's screen presence before examining three high-profile productions: Macao (1952), Soldier of Fortune (1955), and Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), the latter two enabling a comparison with depictions of British rule in Hong Kong. The article contributes to the study of the international image of Portugal's empire, concluding that Macao's historical and geographical characteristics, as well as Hollywood's orientalist conventions and hyperbolic sense of spectacle, ended up conjuring an overall image of ‘subaltern colonialism’
KW - Cinema
KW - Colonialismo
KW - Macau
KW - Colonialism
KW - Macao
UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/portstudies.32.1.0072
UR - http://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Portuguese-Studies-32-1
UR - https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000389287800006
U2 - 10.5699/portstudies.32.1.0072
DO - 10.5699/portstudies.32.1.0072
M3 - Article
SN - 0267-5315
VL - 32
SP - 72
EP - 87
JO - Portuguese Studies
JF - Portuguese Studies
IS - 1
ER -