Mirror communities and straw individualisms: Essentialism, cinema and semiotic analysis

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Authors and Corporations: Tomaselli, Keyan G, Shepperson, Arnold
In: Journal of African Cinemas, 3, 2011, 1, p. 3-24
published:
Intellect
Media Type: Article, E-Article

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Physical Description: 3-24
ISSN: 1754-9221
1754-923X
DOI: 10.1386/jac.3.1.3_1
published in: Journal of African Cinemas
Language: English
Subjects:
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Communication
Cultural Studies
Collection: Intellect (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>A pragmaticist alternative to the radical basis of identity using debates on African cinema is the objective of this article. Post-Freudian psychoanalytical film theory is thus debated from the perspective of a Peirceian pragmatism. Essentialism is critiqued. Position of the scholar is examined in terms of cultural proscriptions.</jats:p>