Orientalismo animado: Una mirada antropológica crítica sobre el film 300

EMANUEL PFOH

Claroscuro: Revista del Centro de Estudios de la Diversidad Cultural

UNR

Lugar: Rosario; Año: 2013 vol. 12 p. 20 - 35

2314-0542

The anthropological perspective of social research is not only attached to the realm of the ethnographic fieldwork. It is rather founded in a previous particular epistemological outlook, which leads such analytical research further and allows for an interpretation of any human activity and production. Building on this statement, in the present paper a critical view of the American animation film 300 and its social representations and ethics is offered. A sound analysis of the film shows its orientalist bias, in the specific manner argued by Edward Said; furthermore, and now on the realm of mental representations, it is possible to link the film?s images to the US military occupation of Irak and Afghanistan.