Tropic Trappings in Mel Gibson's Apocalypto and Joseph Nicolar's The LIfe and Traditions of the Red Man
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Annette Kolodny
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 1, 2008, pp. 21-34
Description
Discusses tropes or traditions, the organizing devices societies cohere to, by comparing a book and a movie. As key elements of belief systems, tropes act as powerful mediators between the world and how we experience the world’s meaning . By structuring a shared reality cultures are created, however, sometimes tropes can structure incompatible realities across cultures and distort our ability to understand cultures different from our own.