Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 13 | Nº 2

Volumen 13 - Nº 2

JULY 2022
July 2022 - Octuber 2022

The Truman Show: A Horizon in Bankruptcy

The Truman Show | Peter Weir | 1988
Juan Jorge Michel Fariña

Universidad de Buenos Aires

Abstract

This article summarizes a special class given by its author in 1997 at the National University of Lomas de Zamora, on the occasion of the premiere of the film The Truman Show. It was published two years later in the collective volume “Etica y Cine” (Eudeba, 1999). Since the work is out of print, the original text is reproduced here as part of the tribute to the 25th anniversary of the film and to the validity of the ideas it promotes. The title "A horizon in bankruptcy" refers to a previous book "Ethics: a Horizon in Bankruptcy" (Michel Fariña et al, Eudeba, 1995)

Keywords: Psychoanalysis | Cinema | Human Rights | Virtual Reality

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: The Truman Show. Un horizonte en quiebra

NOTAS

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Truman and the Corporate Father The Truman Show | Peter Weir | 1988 Alvaro Fuentes Lenci
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Psychoanalysis in Cinema and Theater The Reverse of the Message Between the Director and the Viewer as the Antithesis of Scientific Discourse Carlos Alexis Cabrera Kahuazango
The Cinematographic Origin of Colonialism in Haiti: Zombie Target White Zombie (La legión de los hombres sin alma) | Victor Halperin | 1932 Xavier Brito Alvarado, carrera de comunicación, Universidad Técnica de Ambato; Adriana Rodríguez Caguana, Programa Andino de Derechos Humanos, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador, Facultad de Jurisprudencia y Ciencias Políticas Universidad de Guayaquil; Diego Jadán, Profesor Universidad del Azuay
Desire, Existential, Aesthetic, and Philosophical Question Ese oscuro objeto del deseo | Luis Buñuel | 1977 Carlos Germán Juliao Vargas
The use of cinema as a passer of the real in the documentary film “Lemebel” Lemebel | Joanna Reposi | 2019 Isabel Reyes Mosqueira
The Total Art of Eisenstein: The Ideology Behind The old and the New Lo viejo y lo nuevo | Sergei Eisenstein | 1929 Tomás Viera

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 Truman Show: A Horizon in Bankruptcy

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