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Adynata

Leslie Thornton

Politics and protest

1983

Country: USA

Duration: 30 mins

Colour,

Sound: sound

Available Format/s: 16mm

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‘Adynata’ offers a vulgar tour of the Other, in this case Imperial China?, Woman?, Madness?, Japan?, Murder?, Eroticism?. L.T.
‘For Thornton, the discourse of Orientalism is precisely a discourse of excess, of hyperbole, of the absurd. In ‘Adynata’ she investigates the mise-en-scene of Orientalism — the conglomeration of sounds and images which connote the Orient for a Western viewer/auditor.’ – Mary Ann Doane, Millenium Film Journal

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