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Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media

Edward Said On Orientalism: "The Orient" Represented in Mass Media (1998)

October. 21,1998
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Edward Said's book Orientalism has been profoundly influential in a diverse range of disciplines since its publication in 1978. In this engaging and lavishly illustrated interview he talks about the context within which the book was conceived, its main themes, and how its original thesis relates to the contemporary understanding of "the Orient" as represented in the mass media. "That's the power of the discourse of Orientalism. If you're thinking about people and Islam, and about that part of the world, those are the words you constantly have to use. To think past it, to go beyond it, not to use it, is virtually impossible, because there is no knowledge that isn't codified in this way about that part of the world." -Edward Said

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Ehirerapp
1998/10/21

Waste of time

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Cubussoli
1998/10/22

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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ThiefHott
1998/10/23

Too much of everything

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FirstWitch
1998/10/24

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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