Cinematic Nihilism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Marmysz
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Day Of The Dead ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Fight Club ◽  
Living Dead ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Dead

Exposing and illustrating how an ongoing engagement with nihilistic alienation may contribute to – rather than detract from – the value of life, this book both challenges and builds upon past scholarship that has strutinised nihilism in the media, but which has generally over-emphasised its negative and destructive aspects. The book is divided into three sections that explore an international variety of films in which encounters, confrontations and overcomings of nihilism are depicted. Drawing on insights from Plato, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre and Sigmund Freud, it’s nine chapters include case studies of films such as The Wicker Man, Breaking the Waves, NEDs, Under the Skin, The Human Centipede, Nymphomaniac, Videodrome, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Rollerball, Fight Club, Avatar and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, among others. The overall trajectory of the book illustrates the potentially negative consequences involved in overcoming nihilism, while highlighting the potentially liberating and creative consequences of remaining entangled in an ongoing battle with nihilistic distress. The book’s main thesis is that cinematic nihilism is a potentially beneficial phenomenon that offers audiences the opportunity to explore and reflect on their mortal condition while remaining safely detached from real-life dangers.

From Night to Survival: Nihilism and the Living Dead

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Marmysz
Keyword(s):  
Human Power ◽  
Day Of The Dead ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Living Dead ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Moral Constraint

This chapter scrutinizes the structure of George Romero’s Living Dead films in light of Friedrich Nietzsche’s distinction between passive and active nihilism. The films analysed include Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead. It is argued that in this series there is a progressively building ambiguity in Romero’s attitude toward the passive forces of the zombie invasion and the active efforts of the human survivors. Initially, Romero’s sympathy seems to be with the humans; especially with minorities, women and the disabled. Yet as the films progress, sympathy shifts toward the undead, who are increasingly depicted as targets of human cruelty and abuse. What begins as a nightmare of nihilistic passivity eventually ends with a nightmarish scenario of nihilistic activity, exposing the awful potential of human power unleashed from moral constraint.

Candyman

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Towlson
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Day Of The Dead ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
National Allegory ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Urban Legend

When Candyman was released in 1992, Roger Ebert gave it his thumbs up, remarking that the film was “scaring him with ideas and gore, rather than just gore.” Indeed, Candyman is almost unique in 1990s horror cinema in that it tackles its sociopolitical themes head on. As critic Kirsten Moana Thompson has remarked, Candyman is “the return of the repressed as national allegory”: the film's hook-handed killer of urban legend embodies a history of racism, miscegenation, lynching, and slavery, “the taboo secrets of America's past and present.” This book considers how Candyman might be read both as a “return of the repressed” during the George H. W. Bush era, and as an example of 1990s neoconservative horror. It traces the project's development from its origins as a Clive Barker short story (The Forbidden); discusses the importance of its gritty real-life Cabrini-Green setting; and analyzes the film's appropriation (and interrogation) of urban myth. The two official sequels (Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh [1995] and Candyman: Day of the Dead [1999]) are also considered, plus a number of other urban myth-inspired horror movies such as Bloody Mary (2006) and films in the Urban Legend franchise. The book features an in-depth interview with Candyman's writer-director Bernard Rose.

scholarly journals PRESENTASI TOKOH ESTELLE DALAM NASKAH PINTU TERTUTUP KARYA JEAN PAUL SARTRE TERJEMAHAN ASRUL SANI DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN TEORI PSIKOANALISIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eyes Putri
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Complete Analysis ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Past ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
Jean Paul

Presentation (realist) is an approach to characterization by looking at human life. Through an example of real life, an actor can see and imitate a human being similar to a role to play. The presentation approach will produce nakah analysis methods, process the dialogue and transformation of actors. The manuscript to be used “Pintu Tertutup” script by Jean Paul Sartre translation from Asrul Sani. This script is included of psychology script, because the problems experienced by the figures related to the past. The past eventually became the origin of the character took an attitude and formed a way of thinking. The psychology experienced by the figures is analyzed also through the psychological theory of Sigmund Freud. The purpose of the analysis is to find the cause of the character behave as in the script and bring the character's attitude and thought to the conscious. Basically man consists of id (passion) then id will be controlled by ego (self). If the id is stronger and the ego can not defeat it, then comes the superego which is the result of the upbringing and the norms that the human being finds. After analyzing the character psychology and text analysis in structure and texture, the actor will begin to transform into a behavior. Actors will apply according to a complete analysis ranging from psychology, physiology and sociology. So that appears on the stage is an actor who plays a character filled with strong feelings and expressive.  Keywords: Presentation, Transformation, Psychology, Id, Ego, Superego.  

scholarly journals Imagination and Faith as Survival Tactics: A Psychoanalytical Study of All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 470-481
Author(s):  
Chaithanya Antony
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Relaxation Techniques ◽  
Timothy Williamson ◽  
Wilfred Bion ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Applied Relaxation

Gerda Weissmann Klein, the survivor of the Nazi’s genocide, in her autobiography All But My Life narrated how imagination and faith acted as coping mechanisms for survival and how this empowered her mind and body and helped her to live as an immortal spiritual being. She never thought of giving up her hopes and walked ahead through hardships with determination. Thus she survived the torments in Nazi concentration camp, unlike her fellow companions. This paper also focussed attention on major psychological responses shown by individuals when adjusting to loss, ten commonalities of suicide, ‘Coping Skills’ and ‘Applied Relaxation’ techniques, soothing power of music and day dreaming over emotional thoughts. This paper also included the main theoretical aspects suggested by Sigmund Freud, Timothy Williamson, Roy Eugene Davis, Jacques Lacan, Wilfred Bion, Immanuel Kant, Donald Robertson, James Bernard, Arthur Schopenhaur, Erin Buckels, Delroy Paulhus and Daniel Jones, and mentioned briefly the life stories of Napolean Bonaparte, Ethel Muvany and viktor Frankle, similar to that of Gerda’s real life story.

Horror and Death: Rethinking Coco's Border Politics

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-49
Author(s):  
Orquidea Morales
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Horror Film ◽  
Walt Disney Company ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Walt Disney ◽  
Day Of The Dead ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
Border Politics ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The U.S

In 2013, the Walt Disney Company submitted an application to trademark “Día de los muertos” (Day of the Dead) as they prepared to launch a holiday themed movie. Almost immediately after this became public Disney faced such strong criticism and backlash they withdrew their petition. By October of 2017 Disney/Pixar released the animated film Coco. Audiences in Mexico and the U.S. praised it's accurate and authentic representation of the celebration of Day of the Dead. In this essay, I argue that despite its generic framing, Coco mobilizes many elements of horror in its account of Miguel's trespassing into the forbidden space of the dead and his transformation into a liminal figure, both dead and alive. Specifically, with its horror so deftly deployed through tropes and images of borders, whether between life and death or the United States and Mexico, Coco falls within a new genre, the border horror film.

Fight the Dead, Fear the Living

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Clasen
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Psychology ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Highly Effective ◽  
Living Dead ◽  
The Dead

George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) depicts the futile attempts of a group of people to survive a zombie outbreak by barricading themselves in a farm house. Romero’s film introduced the modern horror zombie, a reanimated, rotting corpse that feeds on the living, travels in hordes, and is contagious. This chapter argues that Romero’s implausible monster is highly effective because it triggers defensive adaptations in human evolutionary psychology, especially adaptations to predators and contagious substances. The zombie’s counterintuitive aspect, its undeath, makes it especially salient. Romero used the figure to probe human reactions to disaster and to paint a vivid picture of the inevitability of conflict and defeat, especially in terms of social, psychological, and organic breakdown. It resonated especially with disillusioned moviegoers at the time of its release, but the film’s monsters and themes continue to engage people because of their evolutionary salience.

Understanding Populism and Why It Matters

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul D. Kenny
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Party Systems ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Electoral Success ◽  
The Media ◽  
Or Organization ◽  
Populist Party

This chapter discusses the concept of populism in greater detail and also describes how party systems are measured and classified. Rather than conceive of populism as a type of thin political ideology, this book understands populism as a distinctively personalistic type of political movement or organization in which charismatic leaders look to directly mobilize mass constituencies through the media and other means. The chapter next distinguishes between programmatic, patronage, and populist party systems, based on which type of party is most common. Finally, the chapter provides a quantitative analysis of the consequences of populist electoral success for democracy across a number of indicators. It shows that populist rule has generally negative consequences for the functioning of liberal democracy, which makes the effort to understand populist electoral success all the more pressing.

Ästhetische Empfindungen

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konrad Paul Liessmann
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Friedrich Schiller ◽  
Friedrich Schlegel ◽  
Moses Mendelssohn ◽  
Jean Paul

Im Rückgriff auf die Ursprünge der philosophischen Ästhetik im 18. Jahrhundert (Johann Georg Sulzer, Moses Mendelssohn, Friedrich Schiller, Jean Paul, Friedrich Schlegel, Immanuel Kant) analysiert Konrad Paul Liessmann die Vielfalt ästhetischer Empfindungen. Er verteidigt sie gegen die Beschränkungen durch die Kunsttheorien der Moderne ebenso wie gegen die These, dass in Geschmacksfragen alles subjektiv und damit gleich gültig sei.

Day of the Dead

Grand Street ◽  
1993 ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Stacey Land Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Day Of The Dead ◽  
The Dead
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