A reader from South Africa, Pam Sykes, alerted me to an absolutely fascinating and devastating review of Avatar, in which there is much truth and a wealth of sci-fi and fantasy background information. http://asubtleknife.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/l…
I want to highlight new developments that have come to light concerning one part of my Jan 27 piece “Avatar is stimulating some very juicy conversation…” http://bit.ly/AvatarJuicy which, it turns out, was read by leaders of the Pachamama* Allian…
The response to my Avatar essay has intrigued me and encouraged me to look wider and deeper at the conversation swirling around this remarkable film. Several people wrote me about the White Savior myth popular in Western cultures — notably embodi…
“Embrace the movie — surely the most vivid and convincing creation of a fantasy world ever seen in the history of moving pictures.” — Richard Corliss, Time Magazine “Avatar asks us to see that everything is connected, all human beings to each oth…