Representation of Alienation and Reification as a Critique of Working Ideology in the Movie ‘La Classe Operaia Va in Paradiso’ Cover Image

İşçi Sınıfı Cennete Gider Filminde Çalışma İdeolojisinin Eleştirisi Olarak ‘Yabancılaşma’ Ve ‘Şeyleşmenin’ Temsili
Representation of Alienation and Reification as a Critique of Working Ideology in the Movie ‘La Classe Operaia Va in Paradiso’

Author(s): Nilay Erbalaban Gürbüz
Subject(s): Philosophy, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Philosophical Traditions, Marxism, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Serdar Öztürk
Keywords: Ideology; Working Ideology; Alienation; Reification; Working Ideology and Working Class Goes to Heaven;

Summary/Abstract: Work activities in modern civilization has become an ideological world view. Work activities pervades everyday life as economic, moral and philosophical. Unemployed and those who reject the values of the market economy has been excluded from everyday life and marginalized. All modern political forms have been praised to work and productivity. However, in society based on market economy work activities have been alienated and reified. Effort/labour which is a quality of human life and maintainer of his life has undergone a transformation. Human who has been transformed into production vehicle has lost the meaning of work. They have been forced their presence and action by economic usefulness under siege of working ideology. Therefore, today's working life began to hurt mental and physical integrity of people. However, there hasn’t been a research about working ideology at cinema international nor the local so far. To reveal the reflections of the studies in philosophy and sociology about this issue on cinema will be a prelude to the creation of a new literature. This article will examine Working Class Goes to Heaven using alienation and reification in working ideology. Therefore, it is made a theoretical description of the work ideology primarily. Then alienation and reification that we will use when analyzing our movie reviews are examined. The last part of the article consists of a critical analysis of a sample movie using the name of the concept.

  • Issue Year: 1/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 117-135
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Turkish