ERIC Number: EJ962358
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 5
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ISSN: ISSN-0895-6855
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Who's Crazy? Students Critique "The Gods Must Be Crazy"
Hawking, Chris
Rethinking Schools, v26 n2 p50-54 Win 2011-2012
On the surface, "The Gods Must Be Crazy" is a campy confluence of three independent plotlines involving Xi, a Kalahari tribesman, who journeys to the end of the earth to dispose of a Coke bottle that has begun to disrupt the harmony of his community; Mr. Steyn, a white scientist, and the beautiful blonde schoolteacher he escorts through the bush; and a group of fugitive black guerrillas on the run after a failed assassination attempt. In this article, students critique "The Gods Must Be Crazy" and explore the ability of popular culture to subtly reinforce and justify a colonial worldview through the manipulation and distortion of the cultures it works to subjugate. ["Who's Crazy? Students Critique "The Gods Must Be Crazy"" was written with Cresslyn Clay and Colin Pierce.]
Descriptors: Popular Culture, World Views, Literary Criticism, Literature Reviews, Didacticism, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Use, Content Analysis, Critical Literacy, Critical Theory
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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