Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 11 | N° 1

MARCH 2021 - JUNE 2021

The good life of Sebastião Salgado: analysis of the film The Salt of the Earth

The Salt of the Earth | Wim Wenders y Juliano R. Salgado | 2014

Universidad de Monterrey

Abstract

Based on Sinnerbrink’s proposal for the ethical approach to cinematographic works and framed by Ricoeur’s ethical aspiration of tending to a good life, the article analyzes the documentary film The Salt of the Earth by directors Wim Wenders and Juliano R. Salgado. The text studies the ethical problems that arise from the representation of the pain and suffering of others around the narrative of a life well lived, in reference to the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, at the levels of the text, the authors, critical reception and historical, cultural and ideological perspectives.

Keywords: Wenders | Salgado | Ethics | Representation

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: La vida buena de Sebastião Salgado: una lectura de La Sal de la Tierra

NOTAS

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Primary Primario | Nazareno Guerra | 2020

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.

The good life of Sebastião Salgado: analysis of the film The Salt of the Earth

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