Gestures of Refusal: Utopian Longings in Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Sandeep Banerjee
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abstract:This essay examines Satyajit Ray’s children’s film Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969) to interrogate the ways it signals the utopian. Contending that its utopian desire manifests through the trope of wish-fulfillment (in particular, the granting of boons), it illuminates the trope’s centrality in the film’s imagination and articulation of freedom. Moreover, the essay suggests that the film’s utopianism is also anchored in its irrealist aesthetics. Engaging with the film’s figuration of ghosts and its violation of the narrative structure of the real, the essay illuminates how these formal features inform, and are informed by, a utopian desire. Furthermore, the essay notes that despite its inherent utopianism, Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne fails to resolve some of the more obdurate social contradictions in its diegetic world, especially around questions of class, gender, and caste. Arguing that these “failures” are in keeping with its utopian spirit, I suggest they draw our attention to the imperfections of our real conditions of existence and flag the limits of textual utopianism. In so doing, they refer negatively to the social field beyond pointing to the abiding importance of class struggle as the ultimate agent of transformative social change.
拒绝的姿态:萨蒂亚吉特·雷的《古比·格温·巴格哈·拜恩》中的乌托邦渴望
本文以萨蒂亚吉特·雷(Satyajit Ray)的儿童电影《Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne》(1969)为研究对象,探讨其乌托邦化的表现方式。它认为乌托邦的欲望通过愿望实现的比喻(特别是给予恩惠)来体现,它阐明了这个比喻在电影的想象和对自由的表达中的中心地位。此外,本文认为影片的乌托邦主义也植根于其非现实主义美学。这篇文章探讨了电影中鬼魂的形象及其对现实叙事结构的违背,阐明了这些形式特征是如何传达并被一种乌托邦式的欲望所传达的。此外,文章还指出,尽管《古比·格恩·巴格哈·拜恩》有着固有的乌托邦主义,但它未能解决叙事世界中一些更为顽固的社会矛盾,尤其是围绕阶级、性别和种姓的问题。我认为,这些“失败”与乌托邦精神是一致的,它们让我们注意到我们真实存在条件的不完善,并标志着文本乌托邦主义的局限性。在这样做的过程中,他们否定了社会领域,而不是指出阶级斗争作为变革社会变革的最终动因的持久重要性。
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