Uświęcać środki. Filmowe oblicza kanibalizmu
Justify the means. Film faces of cannibalism
Author(s): Dominika ZielińskaSubject(s): Anthropology, Civil Society, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Social Norms / Social Control
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: popular culture; Leví-Strauss; Mary Douglas; cannibalism; Delicatessen; Jan Švankmajer; the cook; the thief; the wife and her lover; Fried Green Tomatoes
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to present the motive of cannibalism which appears in chosen film contexts. I am interested in how cannibalism can be used as a cultural communication code and how it exist as functional movie thread. Based on the theories of Mary Douglas, Sigmund Freud, Louis-Vincent Thomas, and Claude Leví-Strauss. I present several movie examples and I propose subjective interpretation of the cannibalism motive in the films in several aspects: cannibalism as the symbolic tool of revenge (The cook, the thief, the wife and her lover), as an allegory of consumerism (Jan Švankmajer’s movies), need of meat as determinant of behavior of movie characters (Delicatessen), and cannibalism as grotesque form of helping each other (Fried Green Tomatoes).
Journal: Kultura Popularna
- Issue Year: 56/2018
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 122-131
- Page Count: 10
- Language: Polish