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Racebending was coined as a term of protest in 2009 as a response to the casting decisions for the live-action film adaptation of the television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. The starring roles of the show (Aang, Katara, and Sokka) were intended to be of East Asian (Aang) and Inuit (Katara, and Sokka) descent, but were played by actors of European descent in the film. The initial protests such as "Saving the World with Postage," were created in a LiveJournal online forum that initially responded to the casting decisions by "inundating Paramount with protest mail." However, the cast went unaltered and when production began, the leaders of this protest responded by founding the advocacy group and accompanying website Racebending by "playfully borrowing the concept of manipulating elemen
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| dbo:abstract | Racebending was coined as a term of protest in 2009 as a response to the casting decisions for the live-action film adaptation of the television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. The starring roles of the show (Aang, Katara, and Sokka) were intended to be of East Asian (Aang) and Inuit (Katara, and Sokka) descent, but were played by actors of European descent in the film. The initial protests such as "Saving the World with Postage," were created in a LiveJournal online forum that initially responded to the casting decisions by "inundating Paramount with protest mail." However, the cast went unaltered and when production began, the leaders of this protest responded by founding the advocacy group and accompanying website Racebending by "playfully borrowing the concept of manipulating elements (bending) from the Avatar universe." The Racebending.com website defines "racebending" as, "situations where a media content creator (movie studio, publisher, etc.) has changed the race or ethnicity of a character. This is a longstanding Hollywood practice that has been historically used to discriminate against people of color." The website also states that the issue predates the coining of the term. According to Christopher Campbell, whitewashing in film is particularly common, and "possesses a long tradition among the industry's most successful and venerated productions. Film history is replete with ignominious examples of white actors portraying characters of color." (en) Il blackwashing è un termine che indica una pratica dell'industria cinematografica in cui un attore di origine africana ottiene il ruolo di un personaggio storicamente di un'altra etnia col fine di riscrivere la storia per fini politici. Fenomeno relativamente recente, è l'opposto del whitewashing, e come tale è spesso aspramente criticato, tuttavia per alcuni rappresenta una forma di rivalsa sociale per la minoranza nera, troppo spesso invisibilizzata in passato. Per esempio, Achille nella serie televisiva Troy - La caduta di Troia, Enomao nativo della Gallia (odierna Francia) nella serie Spartacus, Jarl Håkon Eiriksson nella serie Vikings: Valhalla. Oppure Ariel nel remake in live-action de La sirenetta e la Fata Azzurra in quello di Pinocchio, entrambi di Disney, Amber Bennett nella serie animata Invincible, buona parte del cast della serie The Witcher, James Gordon in The Batman, Annabeth Chase e Grover Underwood nella serie di Disney basata su Percy Jackson e il personaggio di Aviendha nella serie di Amazon basata su The Wheel of Time, Iris West, Jimmy Olsen, Wally West e Batwoman nell'Arrowverse di The CW, Cyclone e Hawkman nel film Black Adam e nel DC Extended Universe,, la fata madrina in Cenerentola o Heimdall nell'MCU e basato sull'omonimo dio della mitologia norrena. (it) |
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| rdfs:comment | Racebending was coined as a term of protest in 2009 as a response to the casting decisions for the live-action film adaptation of the television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. The starring roles of the show (Aang, Katara, and Sokka) were intended to be of East Asian (Aang) and Inuit (Katara, and Sokka) descent, but were played by actors of European descent in the film. The initial protests such as "Saving the World with Postage," were created in a LiveJournal online forum that initially responded to the casting decisions by "inundating Paramount with protest mail." However, the cast went unaltered and when production began, the leaders of this protest responded by founding the advocacy group and accompanying website Racebending by "playfully borrowing the concept of manipulating elemen (en) Il blackwashing è un termine che indica una pratica dell'industria cinematografica in cui un attore di origine africana ottiene il ruolo di un personaggio storicamente di un'altra etnia col fine di riscrivere la storia per fini politici. Fenomeno relativamente recente, è l'opposto del whitewashing, e come tale è spesso aspramente criticato, tuttavia per alcuni rappresenta una forma di rivalsa sociale per la minoranza nera, troppo spesso invisibilizzata in passato. (it) |
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