I came across this video http://vimeo.com/14326780 today on a listserv. It’s an interview with Edward Saïd framed by an academic introduction to his work and uses a very interesting montage of images to establish its argument at the beginning. It is by Global Information Services, about whom you can find out more here: http://www.gisfilms.org/about.htm, whose “primary…
Tag: Orientalism
Bardem in Bond
Joint Blog Post with Fiona Noble Shadows and Mirrors: Otherness and Stardom in Skyfall *Spoiler alert In his seminal work Orientalism, Edward Saïd exposes the constructedness and mutual dependence of the categories of the West and the Orient. His claim is as follows: as much as the West itself, the Orient is an idea…