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Individualism as a Cultural Syndrome in Recent American Cinema

Author(s) -

Nina A. Tsyrkun

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

journal of film arts and film studies

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.

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