To wrap up our inaugural Summer Blockbuster series, Amber leads us on a mission to Pandora with Avatar (2009). Rather than exploration of the culture of the indigenous Na’vi population (or maybe in addition to), we’ll examine some of the philosophical underpinnings of the franchise and discuss the book that completely changed Amber's intellectual trajectory.
Links
“Avatar” Advertising Invades “Bones” Episode “The Gamer in the Grease” (Wall Street Journal)
An interview with Paul Frommer, Alien Language Creator for Avatar (Unidentified Sound Object)
Some highlights of Na’vi (University of Pennsylvania Language Log)
Avatar: A Marxist Saga on the Far Distant Planet (Communication, Capitalism, and Critique)
An Introduction to Edward Said, Orientalism, and Postcolonial Literary Studies (Amardeep Singh)
Orientalism and power: When will we stop stereotyping people? (BBC Ideas, via YouTube)
Watching Avatar through a Postcolonial and Orientalist Lens (via Academia.edu)
Edward Said - Framed: The Politics of Stereotypes in News (Al Jazeera English, via YouTube)
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