Comments on: Noble Savages and Magical Pixie Conquests: Colonial Fantasies in Film

By: Sociología del género – transexualidad: ATC llibertat

Sociología del género – transexualidad: ATC llibertat — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 09:37:18 +0000

[…] Rechazando nociones inalcanzables de amor romántico difundidas en películas y novelas que convierten a las mujeres en sujetos pasivos ; y […]

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By: Sexual Racism and Fetishisation – The Other Sociologist

Sexual Racism and Fetishisation – The Other Sociologist — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 11:42:24 +0000

[…] Sexual stereotypes are damaging. The sexualised Asian woman is a narrow understanding of Asian femininities. This fetish is about subservience. In Western pop culture, Asian men are not seen as sexual beings. Latin men, and Black men and women are characterised as hypersexual and dangerous, while Latin women are conquests. (I wrote about these sexualised stereotypes in film, on my research blog). […]

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By: Hypersexualistion of Black and other Indigenous Women – The Other Sociologist

Sat, 16 Mar 2019 05:19:57 +0000

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bell hooks on Critical Thinking – The Other Sociologist — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 03:08:15 +0000

[…] does Hollywood tell stories the way they do, with racism and racist sexism at the core? Why cast a Black kid in the role of a thief? Why is it James Earl Jones who voices the […]

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By: Les Amérindiens – Les Cinematiks

Les Amérindiens – Les Cinematiks — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 02:12:04 +0000

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By: Not “Playing Ball” With Hollywood Racism | The Other Sociologist

Not “Playing Ball” With Hollywood Racism | The Other Sociologist — Fri, 19 May 2017 22:16:08 +0000

[…] marginalises women, though minority women fare especially poorly. If they’re not reduced into exotic fetishes, they are sexualised or otherwise absent from the […]

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By: Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

Dr Zuleyka Zevallos — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 09:56:13 +0000

In reply to ragheadthefiendlyterrorist.

Hello,
Yes, modern Hollywood films have a tendency to only construct “Arab” people are terrorists which is reductionist, lazy and dangerous. Yet in the past, the construction of “the Arab” was also eroticised, especially of Muslim women. Muslim women are now either absent or presented as a figure of oppression. There was still the running thread of the “uncivilised Other.” That is equally awful, but shows how these tropes have changed over time – and not for the better.

Thank you for your contribution to the discussion!

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By: ragheadthefiendlyterrorist

ragheadthefiendlyterrorist — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:11:29 +0000

Also, any brown Arab or Afghan person – not that Hollywood’s capable of telling the difference – who resists Amerikan colonialism is a “terrorist”. When it comes to us brown people, we’re not even given the option of being saved by “Mighty Whitey”, after he marries the village chief’s English-speaking nubile daughter, of course. For brown people, one can either be a colonised slave, which means one’s “protected”, or one’s a terrorist.

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By: Dr Zuleyka Zevallos

Dr Zuleyka Zevallos — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 06:43:44 +0000

In reply to Helen Branton.

Hi Helen, I’m glad you’re reconnecting with sociology and film. I’m afraid I have zero motivation to watch Hot Pursuit. The trailer is completely off-putting, drowning in tripe stereotypes of women, especially Sofía Vergara’s character as the fiery Latina, and other sexist nonsense. I hope you enjoy Jim Cullen’s book!

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By: Helen Branton

Helen Branton — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 00:29:46 +0000

Hi,
Thank you. I studied film and sociology some 35 years ago and am only now reconnecting with it, via my kids being at uni now and recently wandering through main uni library. (Monash in Melbourne Australia) I have recently purchased Jim Cullen’s Sensing The Past and Climate Trauma by E. Ann Kaplan, I haven’t read either yet. My question may seem a little trivial but I wonder if you would have time to share your insights on a film like Hot Pursuit, it has been a long time since I used these lenses to view film and thank you for this article I will be sharing it with my daughter.

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