Author : William Brown
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782795189
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (827 download)
Book Synopsis Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene by : William Brown
Download or read book Navigating from the White Anthropocene to the Black Chthulucene written by William Brown and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.