To those on the Film-Philosophy List,
It came across my mind as the South Korean blockbuster film, "Taegukgi", was
released, that South Korean film typically loves to adopt the metaphor of
the extended family(alternatively, of brotherhood) to describe its relations
of solidarity amongst its citizens. Actually, those among us who have read
Benedict Anderson's "Imagined Communities" would be familiar with this whole
extended family metaphor. What I would be interested to know however would
be whether anyone has taken a slightly different stand on this issue, in
locating the whole set of politics and ideological issues that surround the
notions of xenophobia and brotherhood in nationalism(especially through a
study of the discourses of film and cinema).
I would look forward to hearing more about this.
Kevin
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