In 2017, Universal Studios released a new version of The Mummy. The rebooted tale of an ancient Egyptian mummy come to life featured a female villain for the first time. The decision to feature a woman in the role was pushed by the film’s producers, director, and stars as an innovative and groundbreaking change. Audience goers did not seem to agree. The film was not successful at the box office and the studio scuttled the Dark Universe slate of films that The Mummy was supposed to launch. Informed by scholarship on Orientalism, as well as literature on the idea of the monstrous feminine, this article examines the narratives of East and West produced by the film. It shows how the film, rather than being innovative, traffics in stereotype, helping perpetuate the ancient idea that the East is an other the West must fear and conquer.

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极其女性化：体现在 2017 年《木乃伊》中的东方主义

2017年，环球影城发布了新版本的木乃伊。重新启动的古埃及木乃伊故事首次出现在女性恶棍身上。影片的制片人、导演和明星推动了让女性担任该角色的决定，这是一项创新和突破性的改变。观众似乎并不同意。这部电影在票房上并不成功，工作室取消了《木乃伊》应该推出的黑暗宇宙系列电影。受东方主义的学术研究以及关于可怕女性思想的文献的启发，本文考察了这部电影所产生的东西方叙事。它展示了这部电影，而不是创新，是如何传播刻板印象，帮助延续东方是西方必须害怕和征服的另一个的古老观念。