We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
PERSISTENT PRIMITIVISMS: POPULAR AND ACADEMIC DISCOURSES ABOUT PACIFIC & MĀORI CINEMA AND TELEVISION.
- Authors
PEARSON, SARINA
- Abstract
Despite the sophistication of international audiences and the politically subversive work produced by postcolonial creatives in the Pacific, romanticism continues to profoundly shape critical discourses about film and television set in the South Pacific. This article examines how the criticism generated (and sometimes not generated) in academic studies and among film critics reflects persistent discourses of primitivism. Even politically progressive narratives find themselves subject to the gravity of romanticism. The sheer persistence of these assumptions that continue to cast Pacific subjects as timeless, innocent and primitive remind us of the resilience of what Trouillot calls "the Savage slot" (1991, 2003).
- Subjects
PRIMITIVISM; PACIFIC Islanders in mass media; PACIFIC Islanders in motion pictures; INDIGENOUS peoples in popular culture; MAORI (New Zealand people) in motion pictures; TROUILLOT, Michel-Rolph; SIONE'S Wedding (Film); TABU (Film)
- Publication
Journal of the Polynesian Society, 2013, Vol 122, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
0032-4000
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.15286/jps.122.1.21-44