Orientalism in celluloid: the production of the ‘crazy year’ / Thery Beord and Achim Alan Merlo

• Main Authors: Beord, Thery, Alan Merlo, Achim
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit UiTM (UiTM Press) 2017
• Subjects: Study and teaching. Research; Motion pictures
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19969/1/AJ_THERY%20BEORD%20SMRJ%2017.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19969/; https://smrj.uitm.edu.my/

This article introduces a journey in the orientalist movement that characterises the cinema of the ‘crazy years’ between 1919 and 1929. Attention will be turned on the peculiarities of this period, including the socio-cultural dimension of that epoch. The role of the woman in cinematographic art wil...