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Screening China China in Popular Geopolitics, 2000-2009 J Screening China China in Popular Geopolitics, 2000-2009 J. Steffen Braastad Master of East Asian Studies EAST4590 (60SP) Institutt for Kulturstudier og Orientalske Språk Universitetet i Oslo Autumn 2010 J. Steffen Braastad Master of East Asian Studies Autumn 2010 ii J. Steffen Braastad Master of East Asian Studies Autumn 2010 Abstract Looking at global box-office winners from the years 2000-2009, this paper finds that the China we encounter on the silver screen, is rarely an antagonist. It is not a China that follows traditional Yellow Peril stereotypes. On the contrary, China might be the saviour of the world, as it is in 2012. Three broad, slightly overlapping categories have been defined to order the Chinese representations. First we have the 'Magic Kingdom'. Including representations in such movies as Kung Fu Panda, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Juno, this is the China that exists on a completely different plane than the rest of the world. It is a China marked out by its difference from the rest of the world. Secondly we have the 'China being China' category. This is the largest group, including such movies as 2012, The Departed, The Dark Knight, Rush Hour 3 and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. The China we encounter in this group is a China that deals with the world, and participates in international affairs. Thirdly, we have 'America's China'. This group, containing such movies as Rush Hour 2, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Mission: Impossible 3 denotes movies where any Chinese state is absent. Americans are given a free hand to act as they please, in a China that seems more like an American colony than a sovereign country. The key finding is that this time period can be called Sinophile – where images of a non-threatening, co-operative China dominates. i J. Steffen Braastad Master of East Asian Studies Autumn 2010 Table of Contents Innholdsfortegnelse Abstract ...............................................................................................................................................................i Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................................... ii Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................... 1 Theoretical Framework ..................................................................................................................................... 7 Cinematic Geography .................................................................................................................................... 7 Popular Geopolitics ....................................................................................................................................... 9 Globalization or Transnationalization ......................................................................................................... 15 The Impact ................................................................................................................................................... 17 Selecting a Sample ....................................................................................................................................... 20 Screening Asia .................................................................................................................................................. 22 The Regional Context................................................................................................................................... 22 China by China ............................................................................................................................................. 26 China in the Western Imaginary .................................................................................................................. 33 Popular Geopolitics surrounding China in top-grossing movies 2000-2009 ................................................... 36 The Selection ............................................................................................................................................... 36 The Magic Kingdom ..................................................................................................................................... 39 Kung Fu Panda ......................................................................................................................................... 39 Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer ................................................................................................ 40 Juno ......................................................................................................................................................... 41 China being China ........................................................................................................................................ 42 2012 ......................................................................................................................................................... 42 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor ........................................................................................... 44 The Dark Knight ....................................................................................................................................... 47 Rush Hour 3 ............................................................................................................................................. 48 The Departed ........................................................................................................................................... 51 America's China ........................................................................................................................................... 52 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ...................................................................................................... 52 ii J. Steffen Braastad Master of East Asian Studies Autumn 2010 Mission: Impossible III ............................................................................................................................. 54 Rush Hour 2 ............................................................................................................................................. 56 Synthesis ...................................................................................................................................................... 58 Transnationalism ......................................................................................................................................... 59 Exploring the Culture ................................................................................................................................... 61 Reception in China ....................................................................................................................................... 63 Why is China benign in pop-culture?........................................................................................................... 64 Summing it up .................................................................................................................................................. 65 Problems with the study.............................................................................................................................. 65 Future studies .............................................................................................................................................. 67 Conclusions .................................................................................................................................................. 68 Bibliography: .................................................................................................................................................... 70 Filmography: .................................................................................................................................................... 73 Appendix .......................................................................................................................................................... 76 iii J. Steffen Braastad Master of East Asian Studies Autumn 2010 iv J. Steffen Braastad Master of East Asian Studies Autumn 2010 Introduction Giant robots on a rampage through the Pudong-area of Shanghai. Chinese government officials purchase stolen microchips on the black market to fit in their nuclear missiles. An American and a Chinese cop cooperate to save the day. Humanity is saved on giant arks built in the Chinese Himalayas. The China we have been able to visit from the comfort of a movie theatre in the period 2000-2009 is clearly multifaceted. I first realized this was a topic worth exploring after seeing those Chinese-built arks save humanity in the disaster movie 2012. This movie, which from a critical standpoint is quite awful, surprised me with China saving the day. Was this something brand new? Was China not an enemy in the stories told by Hollywood? I remembered TV-shows, such as 24, where Chinese were the enemies. I thought of video-games, such as the Fallout-series, in which the world is suffering in the aftermath of a nuclear war between China and the US. I thought of the newest album by the Guns N' Roses called Chinese Democracy. With a fast-growing economy,
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