剖析電影中的種族優越主義與種類(複數)語法

Phenotypes are a crucial issue in the realm of cinema and film-making. Characters, individuals are more than often surreptitiously assigned to a species (more than a people, a nation, a social group or a community) by their appearance, color of skin, morphology, way of speaking. Phenotypes function as signs which have a global dimension – cultural, moral, political. This « grammar of species», as it is used by film-makers is all the more performative since its effects on the viewers are direct, immediate and remain unnoticed. This is the object of this course : see how it works, scan this « grammar » and appraise it philosophically and politically. The "grammar of species" as it is implemented in films has much in common with racial supremacism, the history of slavery, coloniality. This is why this course will focus on the representation of African Americans, "black bodies", in Hollywood movies, "Indians", colonial bodies and the stake of "darkness", the chains of equivalence in terms of racial stereotypes that make it possible for an actor from Egypt to pass for a Mexican outlaw according to Hollywood's patterns, a Chinese-American actor to play the Japanese villain in a film on the Pacific war, etc. It's a course on "body politics" in the realm of movie-making as an industry and soft power too. It intends to show how subliminal messages are conveyed through the symbolics of color(s), as far as human diversity is at issue.

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