Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics
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Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics

A Cinematic Exploration

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eBook - ePub

Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics

A Cinematic Exploration

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication Page
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. 1 On Anticolonial Theory and Semiotics
  12. 2 Colonial Semiotics in The Amazing Spider-Man 2
  13. 3 Epistemology, Ontology, and White Womanhood in Gone Girl and The Hateful Eight
  14. 4 On Convalescence and Going Native in Hairspray and Captain Marvel
  15. 5 On Anticolonial Revolution in Get Out and Django Unchained
  16. Postscript
  17. Index