Crash under investigation: Engaging complications of complicity, coherence, and implicature through critical analysis
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Etsuko Kinefuchi, Assistant Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Using a critical analytic lens, this essay examines how race, racism, and race relations depicted in the movie Crash reflect complicity, coherence, and implicature. The essay first utilizes complicity theory to offer a critical analysis of the film, then provides a thematic analysis of student reactions to the film as a means of gaining insight into multiple possible readings of the film. The analysis demonstrates how a simultaneous, multilayered experience of complicity, coherence, and implicature functions as a process of mediation for the viewing audience.
Crash under investigation: Engaging complications of complicity, coherence, and implicature through critical analysis
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Critical Studies in Media Communication, 25(2), 135-156
- Language: English
- Date: 2008
- Keywords
- Complicity, Coherence, Implicature, Crash, Race Relations