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Discrimination adapted from novels to films in "Harry Potter": "Goblet of Fire" and "Order of the Phoenix".

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Title/Author:	Discrimination adapted from novels to films in "Harry Potter": "Goblet of Fire" and "Order of the Phoenix"./
Author:	Minteer, Kiscena D.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	81 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 78-03.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International78-03.
Subject:	British and Irish literature. -
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ISBN:	9781369085631

Discrimination adapted from novels to films in "Harry Potter": "Goblet of Fire" and "Order of the Phoenix".
Minteer, Kiscena D.

Discrimination adapted from novels to films in "Harry Potter": "Goblet of Fire" and "Order of the Phoenix". - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 81 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 78-03.

Thesis (M.A.)--Western Illinois University, 2016.

A significant part of colonial ideology rested on the firm belief that one group was superior to the other, and that the lesser group was to be subservient to the dominant more superior group. The novels and films Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix each present a theme of discrimination. The presence of the theme within each medium implies that each medium can be analyzed using a postcolonial lens as the social impact of discrimination is present in both. The purpose of this thesis will be to analyze how each medium, novel and film, successfully and equally critiques ethnic/cultural discrimination in the films and racism/speciesism in the novels. In the first chapter, I will describe each category utilized in the theme of discrimination for the context of this argument. The discrimination theme is accomplished without using the traditional concept of "race" or ethnicity, but by creating a multilayered world of supernatural species and magical/non-magical humans. Non-human supernatural species capable of human intelligence are introduced in place of the traditional concept of "race". Magical and non-magical human variation creates a spectrum of ethnic difference within the wizarding community and outside it. Literary theorist Linda Hutcheon states that "transportation to another medium...always means change" (16). In transporting the theme of racial discrimination to the medium of film, the theme changed to ethnic discrimination. The novels Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix oppose discrimination by focusing on racism/speciesism while the films oppose discrimination by focusing on ethnic/cultural differences between Wizards and Muggles. Nonetheless, both the novels and films use differing themes of discrimination to offer an ideological message challenging society's discriminatory practices against those deemed to belong to the other. In the second chapter, I will argue that the novels Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix discuss different species to oppose discrimination, based on racism/speciesism against House-elves and Giants. While House-elves can be compared to peoples who have been enslaved, Giants can be compared to displaced and decimated indigenous populations. Racism is discrimination on the basis of specific physical attributes that are assessed visually as inferior; possession of these attributes or characteristics designates the holder as belonging to the other. In the novels, supernatural species like House-elves and Giants are discriminated against. Human wizards have constructed through racialization a social and political landscape, which openly discriminates against these species. The racism experienced by these supernatural species is also a kind of speciesism. They are subjected to harsh animalizing by their human wizard counterparts; they are treated as objects and not as subjects, which results in their loss of face. According to feminist theorist Donna Haraway, when we see others as only objects we don't recognize that they have face and are subjects in their own right. Postcolonial film scholar Dale Hudson states that "relationships between humans and supernatural species offer ways to negotiate--and even contest--naturalized social inequalities" (661) and that "Supernatural species offer the potential to decolonize our familiar habits of thinking" (662). Thus, in the novels, supernatural species can be used as modes of representation to provide commentary on social inequalities existing in the real world. In the third chapter, I will argue that the film adaptations of Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix adapt this theme of discrimination. The films oppose ethnic/cultural discrimination rather than the racism/speciesism against House-elves and Giants. Magical Wizards discriminate against non-magical Muggles based more on ethnicity rather than racism/speciesism. The difference between Muggles and Wizards is not based on species but rather on culture. What separates these two groups is the ability to produce magic and the cultural differences that come with that. The ethnic/cultural difference between these two groups also relates to what Dale Hudson calls "a blood quantum" (667) where not just Muggles but those who are descended from them like Half-bloods and Muggle-borns are also discriminated against even when they are magical and part of the wizarding community. This ideology of exclusion is what prompts the fracture within the wizarding community, as those who seek inclusion of all magical humans, regardless of blood lineage, are placed up against those who seek Pure-blood elitism. The films focus more on this ideological war. Wizards aren't just killing Muggles. Wizards who believe in the killing of Muggles are killing Wizards who don't believe in killing Muggles.

ISBN: 9781369085631Subjects--Topical Terms:

3433225
British and Irish literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Enslavement

Discrimination adapted from novels to films in "Harry Potter": "Goblet of Fire" and "Order of the Phoenix".
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