Neptune Frost and the Anthropocene: Rethinking Third Cinema’s Anticolonial Politics

The aim of this article is to reveal the ongoing currency of Third Cinema’s politics in view of the Anthropocene through a close reading of Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s Neptune Frost (2021). The introductory part of the article addresses the continuing relevance of Third Cinema’s politics and...

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Main Author: Angelos Koutsourakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh University Press 2025-06-01
Series:Film-Philosophy
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Online Access:https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/film.2025.0311
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description The aim of this article is to reveal the ongoing currency of Third Cinema’s politics in view of the Anthropocene through a close reading of Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s Neptune Frost (2021). The introductory part of the article addresses the continuing relevance of Third Cinema’s politics and connects it with research interested in decolonising the Anthropocene. In the main corpus, I proceed to analyse Neptune Frost through a Third cinematic lens. I argue that the study of the film can participate in recent debates on the importance of problematising the “we” of human responsibility for the Anthropocene. 1
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spelling doaj-art-aed6c927775d4b3b91d12c47089e94eb2025-08-20T02:30:14ZengEdinburgh University PressFilm-Philosophy1466-46152025-06-0129240142410.3366/film.2025.0311Neptune Frost and the Anthropocene: Rethinking Third Cinema’s Anticolonial PoliticsAngelos Koutsourakis0University of Leeds, UKThe aim of this article is to reveal the ongoing currency of Third Cinema’s politics in view of the Anthropocene through a close reading of Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s Neptune Frost (2021). The introductory part of the article addresses the continuing relevance of Third Cinema’s politics and connects it with research interested in decolonising the Anthropocene. In the main corpus, I proceed to analyse Neptune Frost through a Third cinematic lens. I argue that the study of the film can participate in recent debates on the importance of problematising the “we” of human responsibility for the Anthropocene. 1https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/film.2025.0311Third CinemaAnthropocenedecolonising the Anthropoceneworld cinemaSaul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman
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Neptune Frost and the Anthropocene: Rethinking Third Cinema’s Anticolonial Politics
Film-Philosophy
Third Cinema
Anthropocene
decolonising the Anthropocene
world cinema
Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman
title Neptune Frost and the Anthropocene: Rethinking Third Cinema’s Anticolonial Politics
title_full Neptune Frost and the Anthropocene: Rethinking Third Cinema’s Anticolonial Politics
title_fullStr Neptune Frost and the Anthropocene: Rethinking Third Cinema’s Anticolonial Politics
title_full_unstemmed Neptune Frost and the Anthropocene: Rethinking Third Cinema’s Anticolonial Politics
title_short Neptune Frost and the Anthropocene: Rethinking Third Cinema’s Anticolonial Politics
title_sort neptune frost and the anthropocene rethinking third cinema s anticolonial politics
topic Third Cinema
Anthropocene
decolonising the Anthropocene
world cinema
Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman
url https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/film.2025.0311
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