Fantasy of Empire: Ri Kōran, Subject Positioning and the Cinematic Contruction of Space

This thesis emerged from my emotional, tactile, and intellectual access to the actress, Yamaguchi Yoshiko (a.k.a. Ri Kōran or Li Xianglan), who embodied the cultural hybridity of Manchuria and represented a ‘modern girl’ on screen. I analyze four wartime melodrama-adventure films, in which she co-st...

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Main Author: Nagayama, Chikako
Other Authors: Dehli, Kari
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19156