FILM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Avatar (2009 Film), Spike Lee, Do The Right Thing
3 Feb 2016
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Week 17 the sci-fi western and colonialism. Last western we are going to watch. Think about this in relationship to the other films we have seen this. A political regime that uses manifest destiny & orientalism to justify. Record the attitudes, especially of the white people towards the: what is the importance of the film, notice moments of resistance, jake sully is quite like john dunbar: he goes native. The film addresses it more head-on" than dances with. Think of their similarities: pay attention to cinematography & editing, & where we can see the approach of james cameron to how to display certain features. Is the orientalist gaze only restricted to westerners looking at other culture(s) or can it be non-westerners as well looking at others: do the right thing spike lee. Was a blockbuster film: gaze is always from outside. For a person from egypt to come to canada & make a film.
