Structuralism Essay

As will be observed in this review, the critical analyses of the films Thelma and Louise (1991) and The Hunger Games (2012) by applying feminism and semiotics theoretical perspectives, separately to one film and the content of which each can be interpreted following that perspective and theoretical approach. Critically analysing this by an exegesis of the films and the knowledge of theoretical perspectives and philosophy within the content development and critiquing of films wider meanings and…

Lila Abu-Lughod was born in 1952 to sociologist, Janet Abu-Lughod and the late Palestinian academic and intellectual, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod. Abu-Lughod studied at Carleton College (1974) and Harvard University (1984) and is currently a Professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Studies at Columbia University (Institute for Middle East Understanding 2015). She is married to Timothy Mitchell, a political theorist and historian who also works at Columbia University. According to her biography on the…

Drawing inspiration/influence is a particularly tricky situation, because as artists we feel this overarching desire—nay, need—to leave a permanent and unique stain on the world. If that stain resembles too closely one that came before it, then where is the ingenuity in that? This being the case, it is impossible to make anything of merit without being at least subconsciously influenced. Only upon realizing this fact and embracing it is an artist able to fully and successfully utilize the arts…

Paper The Final Solution Ever since the world has become aware of the Holocaust on the Jews, many historians have debated back and forth of who caused this, why this had happened, and when it was decided. Although the popular opinion is to put all of the blame on Hitler because he was the complete ruler at the time, but through more research there are other debates spoken about and other ideas became even more popular. Two of the more popular schools of thought are functionalism and…

field about the aesthetic criteria defining this avant-garde of artistic movements. Indeed, even the notion that postmodernism retains the nom de guerre “avant-garde” is debatable when considering commentary such as Richard Schechner’s Post-Post-Structuralism? in TDR and hghghghghghg. In her introduction to Postmodernism, an analysis of contemporary visual art, Eleanor Heartney compares the absence of any finite exactitude of postmodernity to the concept of God; being both “remarkably…

Understanding of Gender Construction in Kaffir Boy: What is it like to live in a ghetto but trying to outlive poverty? The narrator Mark tells about his true story in the book Kaffir Boy. Born and raised in South Africa, Mark was a young and innocent boy when he first encountered severe racial conflicts between white and black. As a child, he had to watch white police took away his father along with many other black men and beat them up in the street and put them into jail. Seeing this chaotic…

Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu are two famed synthetic sociological theorists whose primary work revolved around solving the issue of structure versus agency. The sociological question of structure versus agency is a question that revolves around how structure and agency influence and shape human action and social life in general. Structure, in sociological terms, is defined as things outside of human nature such class or education level that to a certain degree shape human action.…

Determinism, Compatibilism, and Libertarianism all have their personal values and reasons though strikingly different to one another we can still see the logic behind each one’s concepts. They are all individual schools which have individual values and implications. All three schools share one similarity, they are nearly impossible to declare as false; How can you prove or disprove those laws which ascribe reason and logic? Determinism brings credibility from several aspects, whether it be the…

theory derived just after the end of British colonization in India and Egypt. It is voiced by the third world intellectuals especially through their mastery of literary theories and continental philosophies. It is influenced by the rise of post-structuralism in Europe proposed by western philosophers such as Michael Foucault, Derrida etc. Mignolo criticizes that this theory is lack of references from the third world thinkers’ thoughts who experience the colonialism itself such as Mahatma…

to the postmodern critical movement arisen from the disillusionment with the modernist basis. Postmodernist authors rejected the existence of an absolute truth and defended ambiguity, destructuralization and dehumanization. First influenced by structuralism, Michel Foucault embraced the principles of this theory in opposition to the so-called "philosophies of consciousness” (Poster, 2nd paragraph), softening the importance of the author and the subject in favour of that one of the text. However,…