Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 07 | Nº 1

MARCH 2017

Crossroads

Universidad de Buenos Aires

Abstract

A young person and virtuous southern guitar student dreams about becoming a blues musician. To achieve his goal, he defies himself to find a "lost melody" written by the mythical Robert Johnson.The film presents a variant of the legend of the agreement with the devil and it turns out useful to think the nature of the creating act.
This article based on Arnold Schoenberg’s contributions, establishes the differences between a craftsman and an artist, contributing a hypothesis on the musical event.

Keywords: Schoenberg | Artist | Event | music

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Crossroads

NOTAS

Psychoanalysis and the analysis of a film
We should stop talking about Benjamin for two years Art, technique and mass
A violent alteration. About ethics and philosophy of religion Aballay, el hombre sin miedo | Fernando Spiner | 2010
What does not kill you makes you more barbaric. Conan as a Nietzschean superman Conan The Barbarian | John Milius | 1982
Bioethics of genetic innovations and artificial intelligence Never let me go | Mark Romanek | 2010 - Ex machina | Alex Garland | 2015
Aquarius’ declaration Aquarius | Kleber Mendonça Filho | 2016

Etica y Cine (Ethics & Films) is a Peer Reviewed Quarterly Journal Edited by
Department of Psychoanalysis and Department of Deontology, School of Psychology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Department of Psychology, Ethics and Human Rights, School of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
With the collaboration of:
Center for Medical Ethics (CME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
Under the auspicious of:
The International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

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