Indijos fantazija Didžiosios Britanijos „paveldo filmuose“: „Kelio į Indiją“ analizė | India’s Fantasy in British ‘Heritage Films’: Analysis of A Passage to India

This article deals with the reconfiguration of the co­lonial discourse and imagining the ‘Other’ in British heritage films and the analysis of David Lean’s film A Passage to India (1984)-an adaptation of F.M. Fors­ter’s novel of the same title and a representative of a specific subgenre of the ‘heri...

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Main Author: Deimantas Valančiūnas
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Language:deu
Published: Vilnius University 2014-12-01
Series:Literatūra (Vilnius)
Online Access:http://www.literatura.flf.vu.lt/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Literatura_56_4_45_56.pdf
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spelling doaj-bff311833bb3403da6b7f331aa82c4de2020-11-24T21:30:12ZdeuVilnius University Literatūra (Vilnius)0258-08021648-11432014-12-015644556Indijos fantazija Didžiosios Britanijos „paveldo filmuose“: „Kelio į Indiją“ analizė | India’s Fantasy in British ‘Heritage Films’: Analysis of A Passage to India Deimantas ValančiūnasThis article deals with the reconfiguration of the co­lonial discourse and imagining the ‘Other’ in British heritage films and the analysis of David Lean’s film A Passage to India (1984)-an adaptation of F.M. Fors­ter’s novel of the same title and a representative of a specific subgenre of the ‘heritage films’, known also as the ‘Raj revival’. The analysis of Lean’s A Passage to India is carried out in relation to the ‘Thatcherite’ era, conservative politics in Britain, and the ideologi­cally constructed nostalgic gaze to the colonial past. As the analysis of the film has showed, the film is rather ambiguous. On the one hand, the film displays a critical attitude towards the Empire and emphasizes the brutality and inconsistency of the colonial regime in India, while on the other hand it invites the specta­tors to enjoy India as a nostalgic colonial spectacle and constructs it through the sexualisation and orientalisa­tion of the country. The analysis has also showed that the film recharges its characters with an erotic content. The film A Passage to India eroticises the Indian man, where the character of Aziz is constructed as a man ra­diating a dangerous sexuality, which may lead to pain­ful psychopathological consequences when encounte­red by a British woman – a discourse which becomes relevant once again in relation to the anti-immigration politics of the ‘Thatcherite’ Britain of the ’80s.http://www.literatura.flf.vu.lt/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Literatura_56_4_45_56.pdf
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Indijos fantazija Didžiosios Britanijos „paveldo filmuose“: „Kelio į Indiją“ analizė | India’s Fantasy in British ‘Heritage Films’: Analysis of A Passage to India
Literatūra (Vilnius)
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title Indijos fantazija Didžiosios Britanijos „paveldo filmuose“: „Kelio į Indiją“ analizė | India’s Fantasy in British ‘Heritage Films’: Analysis of A Passage to India
title_short Indijos fantazija Didžiosios Britanijos „paveldo filmuose“: „Kelio į Indiją“ analizė | India’s Fantasy in British ‘Heritage Films’: Analysis of A Passage to India
title_full Indijos fantazija Didžiosios Britanijos „paveldo filmuose“: „Kelio į Indiją“ analizė | India’s Fantasy in British ‘Heritage Films’: Analysis of A Passage to India
title_fullStr Indijos fantazija Didžiosios Britanijos „paveldo filmuose“: „Kelio į Indiją“ analizė | India’s Fantasy in British ‘Heritage Films’: Analysis of A Passage to India
title_full_unstemmed Indijos fantazija Didžiosios Britanijos „paveldo filmuose“: „Kelio į Indiją“ analizė | India’s Fantasy in British ‘Heritage Films’: Analysis of A Passage to India
title_sort indijos fantazija didžiosios britanijos „paveldo filmuose“: „kelio į indiją“ analizė | india’s fantasy in british ‘heritage films’: analysis of a passage to india
publisher Vilnius University
series Literatūra (Vilnius)
issn 0258-0802
1648-1143
publishDate 2014-12-01
description This article deals with the reconfiguration of the co­lonial discourse and imagining the ‘Other’ in British heritage films and the analysis of David Lean’s film A Passage to India (1984)-an adaptation of F.M. Fors­ter’s novel of the same title and a representative of a specific subgenre of the ‘heritage films’, known also as the ‘Raj revival’. The analysis of Lean’s A Passage to India is carried out in relation to the ‘Thatcherite’ era, conservative politics in Britain, and the ideologi­cally constructed nostalgic gaze to the colonial past. As the analysis of the film has showed, the film is rather ambiguous. On the one hand, the film displays a critical attitude towards the Empire and emphasizes the brutality and inconsistency of the colonial regime in India, while on the other hand it invites the specta­tors to enjoy India as a nostalgic colonial spectacle and constructs it through the sexualisation and orientalisa­tion of the country. The analysis has also showed that the film recharges its characters with an erotic content. The film A Passage to India eroticises the Indian man, where the character of Aziz is constructed as a man ra­diating a dangerous sexuality, which may lead to pain­ful psychopathological consequences when encounte­red by a British woman – a discourse which becomes relevant once again in relation to the anti-immigration politics of the ‘Thatcherite’ Britain of the ’80s.
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