Yellow Filter and Representations of the Global South

The opening shot of Netflix’s new film ‘Extraction’ opens on a smoggy, jaundiced city cut through by a congested, unappealing waterway.

Source: “Extraction | Official Trailer | Screenplay by JOE RUSSO Directed by SAM HARGRAVE | Netflix” via YouTube.

The camera pans along the shorefront, the city awash in an orange glow, its buildings obscured by…

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