1. Nick Bamford Senior Lecturer + Course Leader - TV Production Bournemouth University UK

2. East is East and West is West Japonisme followed opening up of Japan to international trade - 1858 artefacts, ceramics, culture e.g. The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan) Madame Chrysanthème novella - Pierre Loti 1887 ‘Japanese Marriage’

3. Le Cahier Rose de Madame Chrysanthème Félix Régamey 1893 Madame Butterfly novella - John Luther Long 1897 Madame Butterfly stage play - David Belasco 1900 Madama Butterfly opera - Giacomo Puccini – Giacosa/Illica - 1904

4. Madame Butterfly Cultural misunderstanding – wilful/wishful Dominant West – submissive East Dominant male – submissive female

5. Madame Butterfly Hollywood film versions: 1915 – Mary Pickford 1932 – Cary Grant/Sylvia Sidney o co co co caricature of Japan o eo eo eo exoneration of Pinkerton worsening East/West Relations The Heat of the Sun novel - David Rain 2012

6. M. Butterfly stage play + film- D.H.Hwang 1989 …subverts the love story and the East/West relationship Miss Saigon Musical – Schonberg + Boublil/Maltby ….satirises ‘The American Dream’ Cho Cho Film NHK 2011 the Japanese perspective

7. Bangkok Butterfly screenplay – 2016 ‘queered’ version destabilises the heteronormative paradigm …balance of power appears to be more equal..who’s exploiting whom? parallels the West/East macrocosm of the context Microcosm of personal exploitation within macrocosm of the system set up for the stronger economy to exploit the weaker

8. Bangkok Butterfly 21st century context: o io io io internet o qo qo qo quick and cheap global travel o to to to tourist instead of traveller: ‘exotic otherness’ observed from comfortably familiar environment ‘Chai’ (Cho Cho San) can be active, not just passive but….. …. in terms of human behaviour, how much has changed?