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GEM 2005M / HY2243
FILM AND HISTORY
Lecture 6
The Man Who Would Be King
Kipling and Fantasies of White
Rule
1) Introduction: Hollywood and Asia
A) Basic Questions:
How has Hollywood Depicted Asians?
What are the Alternatives?
B) Hollywood/US as a “Ghost World”
2) Bollywood
The Basics
3) Asia and Views from the West
Voltaire
Industrial Revolution
New Imperialism
4) India, the British, and Kipling
Empire and Attitudes
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
The Power of “Civilization” and Literature
5) The Man Who Would Be King
Sean Connery
Michael Caine
Alexander the Great
Masons
Context for the Film
6) Conclusion
Things to Look For….
Updated August 30, 2002.