Imagens do mal : a etica no cinema norte-americano contemporaneo

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

RESUMO

The work has as a goal to discuss the relationship between the contemporary American cinema and their possible ethical effects taking as object of analysis the film: The Silence of the Lambs, 1991, USA, by J. Demme. The film was selected for it can represent an example of a new conception of the world that becomes manifest by the end of the XX century in the American cinema. Having as theoretical basis the anthropological study of the meaning of evil representations in the culture, the study demonstrates the transformations which the category has suffered within the history of the North American movies, researching, in the final, the actual relationships among the forms of the monstrous in the film and the ethics of consumer in the Iate capitalism.

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sociologia etica retorica cinema - aspectos antropologicos

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