Postmodern Pirates Tracing the Development of the Pirate Motif with Disneys Pirates of the Caribbean (Contemporary Cinema, 8)

Susanne Zhanial

ISBN 10: 9004416080 / ISBN 13: 9789004416086

Published by Brill | Rodopi, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Postmodern Pirates Tracing the Development of the Pirate Motif with Disneys Pirates of the Caribbean (Contemporary Cinema, 8)
• Publisher: Brill | Rodopi
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004416080
• ISBN 13: 9789004416086
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Postmodern Pirates offers a comprehensive analysis of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean series and the pirate motif through the lens of postmodern theories. Susanne Zhanial shows how the postmodern elements determine the movies’ aesthetics, narratives, and character portrayals, but also places the movies within Hollywood’s contemporary blockbuster machinery. The book then offers a diachronic analysis of the pirate motif in British literature and Hollywood movies. It aims to explain our ongoing fascination with the maritime outlaw, focuses on how a text’s cultural background influences the pirate’s portrayal, and pays special attention to the aspect of gender. Through the intertextual references in Pirates of the Caribbean, the motif’s development is always tied to Disney’s postmodern movie series.

About the Author

Susanne Zhanial (Ph.D. University of Vienna, 2017), is a freelance scholar. Her research areas include film, postmodernism, and gender, and she has published on pirates, monsters, and Kristeva’s theory of the abject.