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- Title
rientalismus v české komedii Jáchyme, hoď ho do stroje! (1974) .
- Authors
Koriťáková, Edita
- Abstract
The Orient is a term used to name the East, traditionally comprising anything that belongs to the Eastern world, concerning Europe. Oriental studies are an academic discipline studying the languages, history, culture, and society of the nations of the East. Orientalism is the imitation and depiction of aspects that belong to the Eastern world. Western civilisation often tends to imitate the East in its pop-culture such as music videos, literary works, and feature films. Orientalism in the movie is one of the most frequent ways to imitate Eastern cultures by the Westerners, which has also become a widely discussed discourse as to its subsequent interpretation. This phenomenon occurs mainly since Orientalism in the film does not always meet with the successful rendering of real archetypes of Eastern cultures. Ignorance, misinformation, or wrongly ingrained stereotypes usually creates misinterpretations. The Czech cinematography also depicts its attitude to Orientalism. Therefore, this paper examines the issues of Orientalism in one of the Czech comedies Jáchyme, hoď ho do stroje! (Joachim, Put it in the Machine 1974). More specifically, this article investigates the concepts, perceptions, and subsequent interpretations of Orient, namely Japan, within the Czech society in the 1970s. These elements are explored through the twenty-minute scene of an art exhibition with a fictional figure of Japanese painter – Uko Yeshita.
- Subjects
ART exhibitions; WESTERN civilization; ASIAN studies; ORIENTALISM; CINEMATOGRAPHY; MUSIC videos
- Publication
Far East / Dálný Východ, 2020, Vol 10, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
1805-1049
- Publication type
Article