Consuming the Other

This article considers Titan A.E. (2000), an animated feature film from Fox Animation Studios that is bookended by catastrophe – opening with the destruction of the Earth and ending with the construction of a “new Earth” through the mass disintegration of an enemy alien race. By unpacking the film in conversation with critical theorists, this article makes visible the shifting-yet-fixed logics of colonization and whiteness which underscore American-exceptionalist worldmaking.