Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics
A Cinematic Exploration
Seiten
2025
Routledge (Verlag)
9781041106647 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
9781041106647 (ISBN)
This book places anticolonial theory, semiotic analysis, and contemporary Hollywood film in a subtextual conversation. This concise yet broad-reaching work will interest scholars and students of film studies, film philosophy, anticolonialism, postcolonialism, and race and gender studies.
Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics places anticolonial theory, semiotic analysis, and contemporary Hollywood film into conversation.
Synthesizing Algirdas Greimas’ semiotic square with the theories of anticolonial philosophers like Frantz Fanon, Eldridge Cleaver, and Sylvia Wynter, Anderson reconstructs an anticolonial social ontology for use as a method of film analysis. Using this ontology to interpret a wide range of films, the book defies the assumptions and challenges the conclusions of postcolonial and intersectional approaches. Reaching beyond the application of anticolonial theory for the purpose of film criticism, the book uses theory to interpret film while using film to illustrate and interpret theory. Along the way, readers are challenged to reconsider class, race, gender, sexuality, violence, and liberation not only in the cinematic world but also in the worlds we all inhabit.
This concise yet broad-reaching work will interest scholars and students of film studies, film philosophy, anticolonialism and postcolonialism, race and gender studies.
Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics places anticolonial theory, semiotic analysis, and contemporary Hollywood film into conversation.
Synthesizing Algirdas Greimas’ semiotic square with the theories of anticolonial philosophers like Frantz Fanon, Eldridge Cleaver, and Sylvia Wynter, Anderson reconstructs an anticolonial social ontology for use as a method of film analysis. Using this ontology to interpret a wide range of films, the book defies the assumptions and challenges the conclusions of postcolonial and intersectional approaches. Reaching beyond the application of anticolonial theory for the purpose of film criticism, the book uses theory to interpret film while using film to illustrate and interpret theory. Along the way, readers are challenged to reconsider class, race, gender, sexuality, violence, and liberation not only in the cinematic world but also in the worlds we all inhabit.
This concise yet broad-reaching work will interest scholars and students of film studies, film philosophy, anticolonialism and postcolonialism, race and gender studies.
Patrick D. Anderson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Humanities at Central State University. His research focuses on the anticolonial tradition of Africana political theory, with an emphasis on archival research and anticolonial theories of social ontology.
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 On Anticolonial Theory and Semiotics
2 Colonial Semiotics in The Amazing Spider-Man 2
3 Epistemology, Ontology, and White Womanhood in Gone Girl and The Hateful Eight
4 On Convalescence and Going Native in Hairspray and Captain Marvel
5 On Anticolonial Revolution in Get Out and Django Unchained
Postscript
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.10.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Focus on Film Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 18 Halftones, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 390 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781041106647 / 9781041106647 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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