Orient Express

something more historically and materially defined than either of the other two. Taking the late eighteenth century as a very roughly defined starting point Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short,

between positivity, which is called hidden Orientalism, and various views on the Eastern community and languages which is called clear Orientalism. In the clear Orientalism, we can find all the changes that occurred in the Orient. In addition to that, Orientalism presented the Orient to the West in many ways. For years, Orientalism had explained and talked about Orient's texts, mores, traditions, civilizations and cultures and they have been put aside because they are foreigners in Europe's eyes. Section

Another topic that comes into question is the gendered body, especially when analysing the Oriental figure. As Pugliese states, 'Orientalist discourses invariably represent the Orient as phallocentrically “feminine” contrasting the “masculine” West’ (2008: 209). In Aladdin, the oriental antagonist Jafar carries feminine attributes such as thin wrists, and it could be implied that his mannerisms are effeminate. His use of large hand gestures is inherently female, and his possession of jewellery carry

David Henry Hwang’s award winning show Madame Butterfly is a story of a French diplomat and his Chinese mistress that he later discovers was not only a spy but a man. Throughout this play sexuality has been exploited not only by Gallimard (the French Diplomat) but prominently seen by his collogue/best friend Mark. Mark’s role is shown in the play as an unfettered masculine sexuality in Gallimard’s head. Whenever Gallimard struggles with questions of sexual ethics and desire he automatically imagines

structure their mindsets as well as reinforcing unrealistic images of the Arabian world. In addition, Aladdin is a great illustrative tool in reflecting the concept of Orientalism, a term coined by Edward Said, which emphasizes on representing the Orient with certain clichés and characteristics that are misleading about the true nature of reality (Said, 1978). With that been said, this review paper will be focusing on the main characters and the way they are

The Idea of Orientalism Portrayed in James Cameron’s Avatar Abstract In brief, this study discusses about the representation of orientalism idea which is portrayed in the film Avatar. The film tells about the conflict between human and native people in Planet Pandora, where human exploits the land and oppresses the native. This study explores in what way the idea of orientalism is represented and how both narrative and non-narrative aspects of the film helped in delivering that representation

a label for “other” cultures to separate the dominant from the submissive, the superior form the inferior, and the human from the other human. Orientalism is “a Western style for dominating, reconstructing, and having authority over the Orient” (Said, 3). An Orient does not choose to be oriental, someone else defines and reinforces the stereotypes that come with being oriental. Notes from a Divided Country, M. Butterfly, and The Vagrants all have traces of orientalism and through these three pieces

In order to explore the relation between the Occident and the Orient, Edward Said publishes his book Orientalism in 1978. Borrowing from Foucauldian discourse analysis, Orientalism, as Bill Ashcroft and Pal Ahluwalia stress, “pivots on a demonstration of the link between knowledge and power, for the discourse of Orientalism constructs and dominates Orientals in the process of ‘knowing’ them” (54). The conception of Foucault’s discourse has established an important foundation for Said to discover

structured the imagined East politically, socially, military, ideologically, scientifically and artistically.” (Buchowski abstract) In film Orientalism most commonly refers to offensively portraying characteristics, customs or qualities of people in the Orient, an imagined name for the countries in Asia and North Africa. In academic discourse, Orientalism is a tool used to enforce Eurocentrism, the belief that Western society is the center of the world. (Shohat and Stam 2) Edward Said claimed that “the

Edward Said describes ‘the Orient’ as people who are from the East; particularly Asia and the Middle East (Said, 2001). Oriental culture is often represented as ‘exotic’ or ‘other’ in some cases; this is because the West believes the East is to be feared. I will explore the key elements of Orientalism and explain how this functions in the film Aladdin (Ron Clements, John Musker: 1992). In Aladdin, there are distinctive differences between the ‘East’ and the ‘West’ which Said states, creates binary