Day: February 8 2021

The representation of the "Savage", between taboos and stereotypes: the case of "Cannibal Holocaust"

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Disney's recent policy aimed at underlining the problematic nature of minority representations and especially indigenous communities in the last century has raised quite a few criticisms by virtue of the perspective used, which ultimately betrays an ill-concealed Eurocentrism and evident hypocrisy all western in style. The analysis of a controversial and epochal film like "Cannibal Holocaust" by Ruggero Deodato, released in theaters 41 years ago, can help us understand why.

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