Volume : V, Issue : III, March - 2016
Desiring (Wo)Men of India: Merchant–Ivory’s Shakespeare Wallah and Bombay Talkie
Jayalekshmi N S, Dr. Babitha Justin
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Creative treatment of both sex and sexuality marks a milestone in the history of Indian film industry. Merchant Ivory productions’ Shakespeare Wallah and Bombay Talkie explore male–female relations beyond racial, regional and linguistic boundaries. This paper analyses the representation of ( fe)male sexuality and sexual anxiety prevalent in India in the late 1960s in the selected movies. Infatuations of Indian men for foreign women, their body language and gestures and Anglophilia are critiqued. Here, the concept of white male colonization of the indigenous female of the third world in terms of sexuality is subverted through miscegenation of Western women and Indian men. Thus, the selected movies complicate the issues of both colonization and decolonization in Independent India, as the plot ends with the deserted lovers.
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DOI : 10.36106/ijsr
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Jayalekshmi N S, Dr. Babitha Justin Desiring (Wo)Men of India: Merchant–Ivory¥s Shakespeare Wallah and Bombay Talkie International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 5, Issue : 3 March 2016
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Jayalekshmi N S, Dr. Babitha Justin Desiring (Wo)Men of India: Merchant–Ivory¥s Shakespeare Wallah and Bombay Talkie International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 5, Issue : 3 March 2016
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