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标题：The Mirror of Whiteness: Blackface in Charles Chauvel's Jedda
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作者：Ben Miller
期刊名称：Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
印刷版ISSN：1447-8986
电子版ISSN：1833-6027
出版年度：2007
卷号：SP
页码：140-156
出版社：Association for the Study of Australian Literature
摘要：Charles Chauvel travelled to America in 1921. He was hoping to break into the cinema industry. During this time Chauvel experienced Hollywood. He was playing roles in silent films to survive (in dark make-up as Mexicans and Arabs), and also worked as a publicity agent for the incredibly popular Douglas Fairbanks Snr, famed for his role (in dark make-up) as an Arab in The Thief of Baghdad (Chauvel Carlsson 29, 30). This article posits that Chauvel¡¯s early experience in and with ¡°blackface¡± was a significant influence for his own films. Michael Pate¡ªan actor Chauvel later discovered, and who went on to star in the hit Australian TV show, Homicide¡ªrecalls of Chauvel¡¯s time in Hollywood: [he], of course, handled himself like a true Australian bushie, in one shot galloping right-to-left as a Red Indian, the next hurtling by in the same direction, even on the same horse, as a cowboy chasing the same Red Indian (himself). (x)