The Representation(s) of “The Other”in Passage to India by David Lean

• 作者: Fernanda Costa dos Santos Benedito
• 来源期刊: 文学与艺术研究：英文版
• 学科: 教育
• 关键词: REPRESENTATION Other and Post-Clonia(lism)
• 年，卷（期）: wxyysyjywb,（2）
• 页码范围: 179-185
• 页数: 7页
• 分类号: G633.41

摘要

This work presents a critical approach to Passage to India, a film directed by David Lean (1984), based on the novel written by Edward Morgan Foster in 1924, focusing attention on micro representations of Indian society under British imperial power. To structure the work, the ideas of two prominent thinkers whose critical approaches are grounded on the concept of Representation and its implication in relation to perceptions of the “Other” were we selected as theoretical framework, namely Herrieta Lidchi and Stuart Hall. In this way, the work aims at highlighting the power of visual images, represented by the film, in the construction of ethnocentric images created by Imperial power(s) and their importance for the development of critical thinking in relation to residual marks of such representations in post-colonial era.