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obvious question that one could ask would be, "how are non-Western peoples portrayed in the
film?" The concept of, as identified by Edward Said, is that of "a binary distinction
between €˜the (allegedly inferior) Orient and €˜the (allegedly superior) Occident."
Sometimes this might be explicit, but usually it might consist of the portrayal of
non-Western...
Thursday, 11 February 2010
What critical questions can one ask, for example when watching a Hollywood movie, to best determine if Orientalism is present?
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