Cinema, eurocentrism and history: (re)building colonial myths and conceptions through Hollywood films
Abstract
This article puts into question the relationship between eurocentrism and filmmaking in the Hollywood mainstream cinema. Using drawing from post-colonial and decolonial studies, this work proposed to link the Hamitic theory to mainstream movies. It starts from a premise underlying such filmmaking (that non-European and non-Western civilizations would be unable per se of producing a meaningful culture for humanity) to reveal that explicit discourses permeating the plots vehicle a European thinking matrix.
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