a literary and historical view from the perspective of Madame Butterfly Nick Bamford Senior Lecturer Course Leader TV Production Bournemouth University UK East is East and West is West Japonisme ID: 795792
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East is East and West is West: a literary and historical view from the perspective of Madame Butterfly
Nick Bamford
Senior Lecturer + Course Leader - TV Production
Bournemouth University
UK
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Japonisme
followed opening up of Japan to international trade - 1858
artefacts, ceramics, culture
e.g.
The Mikado
(Gilbert and Sullivan)
Madame
Chrysanthème
novella
-
Pierre Loti 1887
‘Japanese Marriage’
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Le Cahier Rose de Madame
Chrysanthème
Félix
Régamey
1893
Madame Butterfly
novella - John Luther Long 1897
Madame Butterfly
stage play - David Belasco 1900
Madama
Butterfly
opera -
Giacomo
Puccini –
Giacosa
/
Illica
- 1904
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Madame Butterfly
Cultural misunderstanding
– wilful/wishful
Dominant West – submissive East
Dominant male – submissive female
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Madame Butterfly
Hollywood film versions:
1915 – Mary Pickford
1932 – Cary Grant/Sylvia Sidney
caricature of Japan
exoneration of Pinkerton
worsening East/West Relations
The Heat of the Sun
novel - David Rain 2012
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M. Butterfly
stage play + film-
D.H.Hwang
1989
…subverts the love story and the East/West relationship
Miss Saigon
Musical – Schonberg +
Boublil
/
Maltby
….satirises ‘The American Dream’
Cho
Cho
Film NHK 2011
the Japanese perspective
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Bangkok Butterfly
screenplay – 2016
‘queered’ version destabilises the
heteronormative
paradigm
…balance of power appears to be more equal
..who’s exploiting whom?
parallels the West/East macrocosm of the context
Microcosm of personal exploitation within macrocosm of the system set up for the stronger economy to exploit the weaker
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Bangkok Butterfly
21
st
century context:
internet
quick and cheap global travel
tourist instead of traveller:
‘exotic
otherness’ observed from comfortably familiar environment
‘
Chai
’ (Cho
Cho
San) can be active, not just passive but…..
…. in terms of human behaviour, how much has changed?