Open AccessIndividualism as a Cultural Syndrome in Recent American Cinema
Author(s) -
Nina A. Tsyrkun
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
vestnik vgik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-2471
pISSN - 2074-0832
DOI - 10.17816/vgik92114-122
Subject(s) - collectivism , individualism , movie theater , face (sociological concept) , balance (ability) , sociology , aesthetics , set (abstract data type) , social psychology , epistemology , environmental ethics , political science , social science , psychology , philosophy , law , art , literature , computer science , neuroscience , programming language
The article explores the balance of the two basic cultural constructs - individualism and collectivism - and the way it is represented in the American cinema of 2015-2016 as exemplified by a number of films set in the past, present and future. The author comes to the conclusion that in the face of a global peril the idea of individual moral responsibility inevitably leads to the role of collectivism as the essential survival condition.