Imagining India though Media Lens: Indiana Jones and the Colonial World
Imagining India through Media Lens: Indiana Jones and the Colonial World Released in 1984, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was the second film in the Indiana Jones trilogy. Spielberg’s action-adventure, is not simply an escapist piece of fiction, but rather a post-colonial misrepresentation of India, its ancient tradition, culture, religion. As a result, modern India is subsumed by the notion of the underdeveloped and uncivilized “reality” powerfully and persuasively constructed by Spielberg. ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is inordinately racist and sexist, even by Hollywood standards… The film’s only humanized nonwhite is necessarily 10 years old. Indeed, when not particularly downward trodden, the denizens of the third world theme-park where Indiana seeks his fortune and glory are all duplicitous, evil scum whose favored cuisine is a suitably yuckey repast of raw snakes, giant beetles, and chilled monkey brains. (J.Holberman, 1984; 85)’ This movie is pla...
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