Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics

A Cinematic Exploration
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-10664-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 124 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Film 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.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, Patrick D.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.