Power and Resistance in Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave"

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, , language: English, abstract: The research question of this paper focuses on the relation between power and resistance within McQueen's movie by incorporating Foucault's notion that power is reversible and always brings along resistance. I argue that power as well as power relations change through p...