Beyond <i>Labourer’s Love</i>: Rethinking Early Chinese Film Comedy
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Abstract This article examines three lost short comedies produced alongside Labourer’s Love by the Mingxing Film Studio in 1922: The King of Comedy Visits Shanghai ( Huaji dawang you hu ji ), Havoc a Bizarre Theatre Danao guai xichang and Naughty Kid Wantong ). I propose to look beyond extant instead delve into broader intertextual, intermedial fabric early film comedy for re-evaluation this neglected genre. Drawing on advertising texts, stills, reviews, study corrects misinformation supplements new data, based which posit two notions reconceptualization Chinese film. First, concept renao (“hot noise”) as particular sensorial-somatic mode experience account engagement with tumultuous 1920s. Second, borrow poetic device allusion interpret their widespread references Hollywood films structural, narrative, visual terms. Through prism allusion, appropriation re-production elements can be regarded means adding authority inchoate filmmaking, while at same time complicating familiar topoi, symbols, imageries culturally sensitive ways.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Chinese film studies
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2702-2277', '2702-2285']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jcfs-2022-0024