離散情境下的南亞裔女性：葛雲德．查達的《海灘假期》與《我愛貝克漢》

South Asian Womanhood in the Diaspora: Gurinder Chadha's Bhaji on the Beach, and Bend It Like Beckham

葛雲德‧查達為當前最著名的南亞裔英國女導演。雖然其影片經常被批評過於通俗化，然而她電影的通俗化也促使南亞女性影像得以廣為流通。本論文將從查達執導生涯與當代英國黑人電影發展的脈絡，探討她為何選擇通俗民粹式的電影類型與融合性的以及揉雜性的電影創作，以及她如何透過「有腔調的電影創作」建構出特有的離散情感結構，進而討論《海灘假期》與《我愛貝克漢》如何再現不同世代的南亞裔女性，分析兩部影片如何以寫實與喜劇的原則呈現南亞裔女性流動與跨越疆界的主體建構。

This paper deploys the theories of mass media studies, diasporic film studies, and gender studies to investigate the representation of different generations of South Asian women in Bhaji on the Beach (1993) and Bend It Like Beckham (2002) by the most famous Asian British woman filmmaker Gurinder Chadha. Although Chadha's films are often faulted as overtly commercial and melodramatic, her films nonetheless actively circulate images of South Asian women around the world in a positive sense. In analyzing these two films, the present article focuses on the ways in which Chadha depicts her understanding of the construction of South Asian womanhood in flux while operating on the demand of realism and comedic effects.