Name Susan Barton Young
School Deering High School
Project Title Kali: Cross-Cultural (Mis)Understandings

 

Segment 3:  How the West Views Kali

Show movie clips from the Beatles’ Help, from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, perhaps from Matrix Reloaded, and (if possible) from Xena, Princess Warrior (Feb. 22, 1997 airing).  What is Kali’s role in these movies?

If time:  check out a few of the feminist web-sites (for example, http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Garden/1073/.).  What image of Kali is presented here?

Homework:  Write a dialogue between one of the original images of Kali and a character from one of the videos:  what would she want to say to these characters, or to the director or writer?

This site was created by (Susan Barton Young) at the NEH Summer Institute "Cultures and Religions of the Himalayan Region," held at the College of the Holy Cross, Summer 2006