Roal Enriquez's List: Aspects of film history

• A Passage to India (David Lean, 1984) and Gandhi (Richard Attenborough, 1984), as "the phantom twitchings of an amputated limb" (p. 92). In many late twentieth-century films that met with overwhelming critical and popular success, the tendency to romanticize the native and to offer up a kinder, gentler version of colonialism worked in tandem
• Explaining the means by which imperialism impacts the psychological as well as the political life of the colonized in Africa, thereby producing a society of self-alienated subjects
• polycentric multiculturalism

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