TY - JOUR
T1 - History at the end of the world: decolonial revisionism in Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok
AU - Stoneman, Ethan
AU - Packer, Joseph C
PY - 2022/6/1
Y1 - 2022/6/1
N2 - From 19th-century novels to contemporary computer-animated adventure films, popular media culture provides no shortage of representations that subserve colonialist attitudes and perspectives. Thor: Ragnarok (2017) provides a rare decolonial fantasy, which is especially surprising given that it does so through the veneer of the big-budget superhero film. Registering a deep concern with public memory, the film spotlights and challenges the various uses of public memory in the maintenance of colonial legitimation. In doing so, Thor: Ragnarok offers an incisive and uncompromising indictment of colonization and colonialism, one that ends not with a call for reform but with the end of the world.
AB - From 19th-century novels to contemporary computer-animated adventure films, popular media culture provides no shortage of representations that subserve colonialist attitudes and perspectives. Thor: Ragnarok (2017) provides a rare decolonial fantasy, which is especially surprising given that it does so through the veneer of the big-budget superhero film. Registering a deep concern with public memory, the film spotlights and challenges the various uses of public memory in the maintenance of colonial legitimation. In doing so, Thor: Ragnarok offers an incisive and uncompromising indictment of colonization and colonialism, one that ends not with a call for reform but with the end of the world.
UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15358593.2022.2059391
M3 - Article
SN - 1535-8593
VL - 22
SP - 127
EP - 142
JO - Review of Communication
JF - Review of Communication
IS - 2
ER -