Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 05 | Nº 1

MARCH 2015

Image reigns and the exquisite detail of the pink shoes

The Bling Ring | Sofia Coppola | 2013

Abstract

This essay analyzes, with the use of certain Lacanian categories and notions such as gaze, countenance and compulsive consumption acts in Sofia Coppola’s latest film, The Bling Ring, to show the rule of the ego ideal.
With these conceptual tools certain scenes are studied where the phenomenum of the small tribes and selfies are highlighted, showing the current behaviours of the 21st century. Simultaneously, and towards the end of the work, a scene is underscored, showing the exquisite detail in the film as it unveils the most pulsional aspect of the young protagonist’s sexuation process.

Key words: Image | Selfies | consumption | drive | compulsion

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: La imagen reina y el divino detalle de los zapatos rosa

NOTAS

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Guidebook for neurotics: Parody and example in Slavoj Žižek The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema | Sophie Fiennes | 2006
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Social representations and science fiction A methodological approach to the subjectivity of the epoch

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.

Image reigns and the exquisite detail of the pink shoes

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