DEHUMANIZATION IN MOVIES- Orientalism, Colonialism, and the Film Industry

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 can dehumanization be stopped?

SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE:
  / mangopodcast  
  / mangopodcast0  
  / mangopodcast0  
https://linktr.ee/mangopod

Dominican Gagá: prohibition and resilience.
   • DOMINICAN GAGÁ: Racism, prohibition, ...  

Background music:
   • [no copyright music] 'In Dreamland ' ...  

References:
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 Press.

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.