'Life is a state of mind' - on fiction, society and Trump
| Autor: | Carsten Bagge Laustsen, Bülent Diken |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Diken, Bülent |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
media_common.quotation_subject Social fact 0507 social and economic geography Cynicism 050801 communication & media studies Movie theater 0508 media and communications Social analysis Trump State (polity) Fiction Sociology Being There Shadow (psychology) media_common Populism business.industry 05 social sciences Double reading Epistemology Anthropology business 050703 geography Cinema |
| Zdroj: | Diken, B & Laustsen, C B 2017, ' 'Life is a state of mind'-on fiction, society and Trump ', Journal for Cultural Research, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 257-267 . https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2017.1343027 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14797585.2017.1343027 |
| Popis: | The article undertakes an allegorical double reading of Being There and Trump as instances of what we call socio-fiction. Crucially in this respect, reality and fiction are not two opposed realms. The two realms always interact in subtle ways, which is why cinema can be a resource for diagnostic social analysis. We first articulate a general commentary on the relationship between cinema and society, introducing the concept of ‘socio-fiction’. Secondly, we analyse Peter Sellers’ Being There, an interesting film focused on the relationship between reality and fiction. In this analysis, we elaborate on different ways of approaching fiction in a sociological prism. And finally, we discuss Trump as a fallout effect of Being There. After all, a film is not just an image of a reality, a shadow or appearance of a social fact; sometimes the reality itself seems to have become an appearance of an appearance, a shadow of a shadow. |
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