Sabu's Skins

Abstract

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. You can ‘like’ him on his Facebook page <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sabu-Dastagir/105608276138194?sk=info>. 2. Screen Gems televised many of Korda's films in the USA in the 1950s. 3. The Maria Montez films co-starring Sabu (Arabian Nights; White Savage, 1943; Cobra Woman) were referred to as ‘sand and sarong’ movies by ‘the Hollywood hierarchy’ (Leibfried Leibfried, Philip. 2010. Star of India: The Life and Films of Sabu, Albany, GA: BearManor Media. [Google Scholar] 129). 4. Richard Dyer's methodology is usefully elaborated in Camera Obscura 16.3 (2001). See in particular Diane Negra's introduction, ‘Female Stardom and Early Film History’: 1–7. 5. When Tarzan entered the civilised world, discrepancies between his understanding of the world and the expectations of civilising etiquette provoke humour and misunderstanding, so that Tarzan's conduct can offer a critical reassessment of civilisation. With Sabu, since his figure permits no radical discrepancy but more of a mediation between these two worlds, such humour is not possible. The comedy of the Sabu film is therefore mostly physical.