What is the role of fantasy in disseminating ecological awareness?
Do you think that a Marxist/Eco-critical reading of Avatar (2009) will contribute to a better understanding of the ecological theme in the film?
Certainly because the Marxist consciousness emerges from the womb of the people / the bourgeois class and is therefore responsible for the reform and development of society and the building of a true environment that is not based on money and interests but on the preservation of green areas whose purpose is not capital and wealth but health and life of the individual
https://monthlyreview.org/2015/12/01/marxism-and-ecology/
I hope this will hep you.
In this movie, I have recognized more anti-colonialism than marxism. Not all the anti-colonialists are marxists, as example Gandhi, etc.
Of course, Sir. But still the invaders' attempt to cut the tree which is symbol of life, to profit from the economy of the place puts the text in the context of ecological literature. Thanks.
I haven't read Das Kapital recently but I don't think Karl could have predicted a $2.788 billion box office take for a blue creature movie with petite bourgeoise sensibilities. At least Titanic had the Celine Dion song ...
The anti-colonial, eco-critical, and romantic message of Avatar is so thinly veiled that one wonders about its real impact on political imagination. In his programatic text "'On Fairy Stories", Tolkien took a very strong stance against allegory, seeing it as the poorest form of work of the imagination. By that logic, Avatar would have been a much more potent cultural artifact if it had dug a bit deeper in terms of world building and narrative. I would say that applying a marxist / eco-critical interpretation to that work is redundant, or tautological. Avatar is already the barest dressing up of eco-critical narratives. The power of those interpretative tools should be to provide new insights into complex works and worlds, and generate discussions about ambiguous narratives.
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