Orientalism in film: Images of contemporary China in Hollywood movies.

摘要

This thesis focuses on how contemporary China is introduced by recent Hollywood films more as an emerging Oriental other, and how Said's Orientalism could be revised to explain this new feature of cultural representation. In the end, this thesis concludes that the narcissism scholars like Rey Chow and Edward Said observe in the Oriental images is far from fading away. This narcissism, however, is achieved through emphasizing the similarities rather than the differences the Oriental other shares with the Western societies.