Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics - A Cinematic Exploration

This book places anticolonial theory, semiotic analysis, and contemporary Hollywood film in a subtextual conversation. This concise yet broad-reaching work will interest scholars and students of film studies, film philosophy, anticolonialism, postcolonialism, and race and gender studies.

List of contents

List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 On Anticolonial Theory and Semiotics
2 Colonial Semiotics in The Amazing Spider-Man 2
3 Epistemology, Ontology, and White Womanhood in Gone Girl and The Hateful Eight
4 On Convalescence and Going Native in Hairspray and Captain Marvel
5 On Anticolonial Revolution in Get Out and Django Unchained
Postscript
Index

About the author

Patrick D. Anderson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Humanities at Central State University. His research focuses on the anticolonial tradition of Africana political theory, with an emphasis on archival research and anticolonial theories of social ontology.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick D. Anderson, Patrick D. (Central State University Anderson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.2025
• EAN: 9781041106647
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4110664-7
• No. of pages: 106
• Series: Routledge Focus on Film Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Reference, Gender studies, gender groups, Black & Asian Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Reference, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity