Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene (eBook)

William Brown (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
248 Seiten
John Hunt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78279-518-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Through an analysis of Buster Keaton’s classic The Navigator through the combined lenses of posthumanism and critical race theory, Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene deconstructs white modernity and posits a ‘black’ future.

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Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene radically re-interprets Buster Keaton's iconic 1924 film, The Navigator, through the combined lenses of posthumanism and critical race theory. This book deconstructs the film's underlying anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity while exposing the unthinking whiteness of theorists and philosophers, including Gilles Deleuze, who have given Keaton's work pride of place in the history of cinema. Through its daring and provocative analysis of Keaton's classic, Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene invites us to consider cinema itself, at least in its classical narrative form, as a tool for constructing and maintaining white supremacy while building the conceptual tools for a world beyond whiteness.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.6.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Buster Keaton, Books on Buster Keaton, Film, Books on Film, Film History, Cinema History, The Navigator, Buster Keaton's The Navigator, White Anthropocene, Black Chthulucene, Film Studies, Film Philosophy, Philosophy, Racial Divide, Antiblackness, Antiblackness in Film, Critical Race Theory, White Supremacy, Books on White Supremacy, White Supremacy in Film, Social Science, Black Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-78279-518-9 / 1782795189
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78279-518-6 / 9781782795186