https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index en-au 5 https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:737 Wed 11 Apr 2018 15:16:26 AEST ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:23334 Tears of the Black Tiger/Fa Thalai Jone (Sasanatieng, dir., 2000) occupies a contested position in the history of the cinema. Critically acclaimed and awarded at both European and Asian film festivals, it was first heavily edited and then supressed by its American distributors as being unsuitable for Western audiences (Fellion 2013). Despite its lack of international release, it has since gone on to achieve cult status, being especially celebrated for its exuberant art direction and set design. Combining a visual palette of bold, rich hues with costumes that often appear as an extension of their painted backdrops, Tears of the Black Tiger sets out to celebrate and challenge the cinematic traditions of the American western and the European romance by reimagining them through the lens of a distinctly Asian genre; the overwrought comedy-action-melodrama. While both the characters and the actions they undertake in the film are used to advance Sasanatieng's critical homage to the West, it is in the film's mise-en-scène in general, and in its set design in particular, that he brings into question the very notion of the Oriental interior as "other".]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:13:32 AEDT ]]>