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The Roc’s egg as vanishing mediator in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from text to film
Kahambing, Jan Gresil S.
2023-10-20
Source PublicationBritish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
ISSN1353-0194
Volume50Issue:5Pages:1209-1233
Abstract

In this paper, I trace the absent narrative of the Roc’s Egg in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp to the film adaptation. Disney, in particular, omits the narrative and by omitting, changes the inner logic of the text. The 1992 animated film and the 2019 live adaptation introduce a power relationship that shifts from the text’s structural power into agential power through its genre ideology of Americanisation. In this shift, there is a vanishing element that allows the change and that is the Roc’s egg whose meaning is power limitation. I argue that the roc’s egg in the text functions, in Jameson and Žižek’s lens, as a vanishing mediator that though is absent in the films still finds its meaning subsumed in them. In this way, the crux of the argument is to diagnose such Americanisation through limitation.

DOI10.1080/13530194.2022.2079115
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Indexed BySSCI ; A&HCI
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaArea Studies ; History
WOS SubjectArea Studies ; History
WOS IDWOS:000798816800001
PublisherROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2-4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXON, ENGLAND
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85131036555
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Document TypeJournal article
CollectionFaculty of Arts and Humanities
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Corresponding AuthorKahambing, Jan Gresil S.
AffiliationDepartment of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao
First Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
Corresponding Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
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Kahambing, Jan Gresil S.. The Roc’s egg as vanishing mediator in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from text to film[J]. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2023, 50(5), 1209-1233.
APA Kahambing, Jan Gresil S..(2023). The Roc’s egg as vanishing mediator in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from text to film. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 50(5), 1209-1233.
MLA Kahambing, Jan Gresil S.."The Roc’s egg as vanishing mediator in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from text to film".British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 50.5(2023):1209-1233.
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