Postcolonial theory and Avatar

✍ Scribed by Gautam Basu Thakur

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 198
Series: Film theory in practice
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This volume offers a concise introduction to postcolonial film theory in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret James Cameron's high-grossing, immensely popular, and critically acclaimed 2009 film. Avatar is widely celebrated for its politically and culturally sensitive critique of the 'West's' neocolonial wars and exploitation of the 'global south' - an allegory for (neo)colonialism - and, for highlighting the plight of tribal communities throughout the world (for instance, the case of the Dongriah Kondh tribe of India). At the same time, it has been also criticized for repeating the colonialist fantasy of saving natives doomed by imperialist aggression.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
The postcolonial avatar
The postcolonial is dead!
The structure of the book
Notes

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