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- Title
FROM YESTERDAY: ORIENTALIZMUS V ZáPADNEJ ROCKOVEJ HUDBE.
- Authors
Hlavačková, Zuzana
- Abstract
Orientalism is a very common phenomenon in Western art: film directors, book authors, music composers and even painters are trying to attract the audience by a touch of unknown, interesting. This was precisely the case of the music video for the song From Yesterday by the American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, which was one of the first American bands to receive a permission to shoot a music video in the People’s Republic of China (2006). The video is widely perceived as a tribute to the motion movie The Last Emperor (B. Bertolucci 1987), and it was this film that inspired the director in arranging its scenes as well as in choosing the characters. Two versions of the clip were published: a four-minute version, exclusively music video, and a thirteen-minute version, i.e. music video enriched by a story scene, reminiscent of a short film. In my analysis, the longer version of the video is commented and the elements of ornamental orientalism are characterised as well as the similarities between the video and the film are grasped.
- Subjects
ART; WESTERN films; FILMMAKERS; SHORT films; MUSIC videos; ROCK music; ROCK groups
- Publication
Far East / Dálný Východ, 2019, Vol 9, Issue 2, p104
- ISSN
1805-1049
- Publication type
Article