Centre for Internationalism film screening
When:
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Screening of Adventures in the Empire: a mistold story (2024) and discussion with Rui Lopes and Professor Julia Lovell (Birkbeck).
From the 1930s to the 1970s, the Portuguese colony of Macao was brought to the screen by dozens of Hollywood crime films and European spy thrillers, its sampans and casinos visualised both through a touristic gaze ('The Monte Carlo of the Orient') and through orientalist discourses that emphasised vice, violence, and corruption ('The wickedest city in the world'). In this dynamic 44-minute montage, historian Rui Lopes merges images and sounds from over thirty films and television episodes with press clippings, scripts, censorship files, and other documents, shedding a new light on the paradoxes and artifices that materialised the imagination of colonial Macao and projected it around the world.
Contact name:
Jessica Reinisch
- Miss Julia Lovell