CULS30002- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 45 pages long!)

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Cultural Studies
• Course: CULS30002
• Professor: Dr.Dan Edwards

Document Summary

East asia closely interlinked histories, commonalities in cultures. Contribute to cultural/ national/ historical narrative of the region. Transnational corporations rarely bounded by national boundaries. Directed by south korea"s most successful director of blockbusters". Dialogue mainly in english, but some korean featured. Distributed globally, including us distribution by weinstein company. Transnational production problematic to ascribe to particular nation/ region. Prominent literary theorist, public intellectual and palestinian activist. Orient not an inert fact of nature" pp. Orient" product of active construction of western imagination. Concept intimately tied to read world colonial expansion of european power & forced economic integration under european domination. The imaginary orient constructed from a european vantage. European culture defined as inherently superior, civilised, progressive while oriental culture defined as static, sensual and sexual. What makes the orient possible is situated in europe p. 59. Place of the orient in history determined by colonial european discourse. Created by imperial japan when at the height of its power.