Andersonian
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- (geology) Of or pertaining to Ernest Masson Anderson (1877–1960), Scottish geologist, or his work on the dynamic analysis of faulting.
- (film) Of or pertaining to Lindsay Anderson (1923–1994), British film and theatre director and film critic.
- (logic) Of or pertaining to Alan Ross Anderson (1925–1973), American logician, or his work in relevance logic and deontic logic.
- (political science) Of or pertaining to Benedict Anderson (1936–2015), Chinese-born Irish political scientist and historian.
- (film) Of or pertaining to Wes Anderson (born 1969), American film director, producer, and writer.
- 2018 March 31, Nina Li Coomes, “Unpacking the Fictional Japan of ‘Isle of Dogs’”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- At other points, the film suggests the motive is financial, depicting the Kobayashi clan as staging an industrial coup of sorts, like a quirky Andersonian take on the zaibatsu (a term for the family-controlled business monopolies that dominated Japan until the end of World War II).