英文摘要 |
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. |