Hamid Dabashi Discusses Zack Snyder’s 300 and Historical Propaganda
August 7th, 2007 by Andre Soares
Historian Hamid Dabashi discusses 300 and historical propaganda in Al-Ahram Weekly (via GreenCine Daily):
"Not just in Thermopylae, but also in Marathon and Salamis did the Greeks put up splendid resistances to the predatory expansionism of the Achamanid Empire. Much later in history, these battles assumed disproportionate and entirely ahistorical significance — the farther the myth of ‘the West’ (as the presumed centre of universe and the colour-coded sign of white man’s civilising mission around the globe) developed the more these battles assumed almost metaphysical and supernatural significance. Small skirmishes at the farthest frontiers of the shapeless, graceless, and gargantuan Achamanid Empire at the time, battles such as Thermopylae, Marathon, or Salamis increasingly assumed ahistorical, prophetic, and even divine significance in the making of the myth of ‘the West’ as the Christian God’s gift to humanity."
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Interesting concept, but the movie itself is not worth analyzing. Just a (male) legs and gore fest.