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Hollywood's Hong Kong: Cold War Imagery and Urban Transformation in Edward Dmytryk's Soldier of Fortune

The essay explores the representation of Hong Kong in the film, Soldier of Fortune [Dmytryk 1955] against the backdrop of the Cold War politics of the 1950s. Dwelling on the theme of cinema and the city, it brings in the enquiry of geography and film studies to analyze how space, geographical or imaginary, functions to reveal issues of gender, race, class and ideology. Soldier of Fortune produces a highly Orientalized vision of the city and its inhabitants, with an indexical representation of the film medium and exoticized “Other” for an audience with a Cold War mind-set, thus fulfilling its propaganda role in the battle of cultures between the East and the West.