{"id":4330,"date":"2010-01-17T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2010\/01\/17\/is-avatar-deep"},"modified":"2010-01-17T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T18:25:00","slug":"is-avatar-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2010\/01\/17\/is-avatar-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Avatar Deep?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I recently received an email requesting contributions for a book on Avatar and Philosophy. I’m not averse to contributing to these ‘popular culture’ books, and I have contributed in the past, but Avatar? Nice effects, I admit, even though I felt nauseous for the first half-hour whilst my brain adjusted to the 3D, but I did not come out of the cinema feeling as if it had engaged me in any intellectual (or even emotional) sense. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen (been forced to watch) Disney’s treatment of Pocahontas, but is this really any different? <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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