Nowadays we might cringe when we see movies like
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, but people back then didn’t do so at all. On the
contrary: the movie was, and it still is critically acclaimed and part of pop
culture due to USA’s cultural hegemony over the world.
In this video essay I talk about colonialism in the
film industry, propaganda, dehumanization, how important is the film industry
for political hegemony, how certain marginalized groups are dehumanized in the
film industry and why, Orientalism and how the movie Dune uses Orientalist
tropes, and what to do next.
prohibition and resilience.
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Orientalism: Edward Said.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Paulo Freire.
Memmi, A. (n.d.). Mythical portrait of the colonized.
In A. Memmi, The colonizer and the colonized (p. 85). Boston: Becaon
Shohat, E. S. (2014). The Myth of
the West. In E. S. Shohat, Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism ad
the Media (p. 13). London & New York: Routledge