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- Title: Religion, Sexuality and the Image of the Other in 300 (Critical Essay)
- Author : Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 221 KB
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[1] The movie 300, dealing with the battle between Greeks and Persians at Thermopylae in the year 480 BCE, aroused considerable international controversy when it appeared in 2007. The fiercest objections were voiced by Iranian critics who resented the way the Persians were portrayed in the film. (1) The film is based upon the graphic novel with the same name by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley from 1999. (2) The aim of this article is to study one of the controversial aspects of 300: how religion and sexuality are connected and how these two themes together are used to arouse sympathy for the Spartan warriors and aversion towards their opponents. [2] This article takes as its point of departure a model for analysis developed by the sociologist Joane Nagel in her book Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers. Nagel shows how sexuality is often used as a tool to define borders between different ethnic groups, by describing those outside one's own group as impure, undersexed or oversexed, or generally sexually deviant as compared to the normative sexual behaviour of one's own group. (3) This way of "othering" members of other ethnic groups is a way of discouraging sexual relations with members of other groups, but also of promoting feelings of superiority connected to one's own group. In this article, I will apply this model for analysis on the graphic novel and film 300, but also add one more factor into the equation: religion. My basic question is: how are descriptions of religion and sexuality used in order to express the superiority of the group the audience is meant to identify with and the essential otherness and inferiority of "the others' and can such an analysis shed light on some of the vehement reactions to the film?
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