So, like, I get all these comments...
EDIT: This isn't personal. It's wankery.
I believe God just bashed me in the head and reminded me that some people just don't see the inner trappings of post-colonial theory, don't actually have the literary theory training I have or the cultural studies stuff that I read.
So I posted at the 300-movie community, where they worship and praise 300 for all its glory (and I decided to worship, too, except with a hitch...). And of course, I get a variety of opinions, some of which are funny and others which kind of made me shake my head because I'm all like, 'gawd, none of you can speak for Asians if you're all in the West, living there, and breathing the air' though of course, for the simple purpose of wankery, they probably can. But can they, really, from an academic stand-point? (See Deepika Bahri for her critique on Gayatri Spivak).
As a comparative literature major, I've made it my duty to criticize, to unravel the ideas in a work and to at least share these things. It's a wonder (and it's only expected) that many people remain ho-hum to the ideology that informs Hollywood, how it informs the visuals and even the character/set design, how these make the omniscient camera biased in its own sense. It can rear its ugly head on the third world and be ignored, pushed aside even.
And for the record, everything is political/has an agenda whether or not the creators know it, seeing as I'm coming from a post-colonial/almost-Marxist framework. (This should really become a full-blown paper except I'm not a film major).
Some of these people missed the point completely. Either way, I love that they're coming from different view-points and sharing their opinions. I love Livejournal for precisely these reasons!
I believe God just bashed me in the head and reminded me that some people just don't see the inner trappings of post-colonial theory, don't actually have the literary theory training I have or the cultural studies stuff that I read.
So I posted at the 300-movie community, where they worship and praise 300 for all its glory (and I decided to worship, too, except with a hitch...). And of course, I get a variety of opinions, some of which are funny and others which kind of made me shake my head because I'm all like, 'gawd, none of you can speak for Asians if you're all in the West, living there, and breathing the air' though of course, for the simple purpose of wankery, they probably can. But can they, really, from an academic stand-point? (See Deepika Bahri for her critique on Gayatri Spivak).
As a comparative literature major, I've made it my duty to criticize, to unravel the ideas in a work and to at least share these things. It's a wonder (and it's only expected) that many people remain ho-hum to the ideology that informs Hollywood, how it informs the visuals and even the character/set design, how these make the omniscient camera biased in its own sense. It can rear its ugly head on the third world and be ignored, pushed aside even.
And for the record, everything is political/has an agenda whether or not the creators know it, seeing as I'm coming from a post-colonial/almost-Marxist framework. (This should really become a full-blown paper except I'm not a film major).
Some of these people missed the point completely. Either way, I love that they're coming from different view-points and sharing their opinions. I love Livejournal for precisely these reasons!