Avatar and the Movements of Neocolonial Sentimental Cinema

Kyla C. Schuller

doi:10.7282/T3RN39H2

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Avatar and the Movements of Neocolonial Sentimental Cinema

Kyla C. Schuller

Discourse, Vol.35(2), pp.177-193

2013

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https://doi.org/10.7282/T3RN39H2

Abstract

Film

Motion pictures

Sentimentalism

Cameron, James, 1954-

Popular Culture

In this essay, I turn to James Cameron’s blockbuster film Avatar (2009) to explore how and to what ends contemporary sentimental cinema moves the bodies of its subjects and audience.

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Title: Subtitle: Avatar and the Movements of Neocolonial Sentimental Cinema
Creators: Kyla C. Schuller (Author) - Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
Publication Details: Discourse, Vol.35(2), pp.177-193
Date published: 2013
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Number of pages: 17 p.
Academic Unit: School of Arts and Sciences; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (SAS)
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Identifiers: 991031549962004646