The paper uses the example of the movie Happiness (1998) to analyze cultural ideas on which the (de) construction of a happy American family and happy individuals who "have everything" is based. The paper also analyzes the director's reflexive imagining of every character in the film, whose appearance is based on cultural attitudes and values of individuals, and which arises as an obstacle for establishing intimacy with other people and achieving happiness. Thus, this paper strives to show how culture paradoxically becomes "an obstacle to itself", or rather, how culturally determined attitudes about oneself and others function as an obstacle in achieving culturally determined goals and life purposes.
Keywords:
loneliness / happiness / film / despair / "having it all"
Source:
Etnoantropološki problemi, 2017, 12, 2, 379-413
Publisher:
Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju, Beograd
TY - JOUR
AU - Ilić, Vladimira
PY - 2017
UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2377
AB - The paper uses the example of the movie Happiness (1998) to analyze cultural ideas on which the (de) construction of a happy American family and happy individuals who "have everything" is based. The paper also analyzes the director's reflexive imagining of every character in the film, whose appearance is based on cultural attitudes and values of individuals, and which arises as an obstacle for establishing intimacy with other people and achieving happiness. Thus, this paper strives to show how culture paradoxically becomes "an obstacle to itself", or rather, how culturally determined attitudes about oneself and others function as an obstacle in achieving culturally determined goals and life purposes.
PB - Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju, Beograd
T2 - Etnoantropološki problemi
T1 - "Having it all" and "not having yourself" An analysis of the representations of happiness and despair in the movie Happiness
EP - 413
IS - 2
SP - 379
VL - 12
DO - 10.21301/EAP.V12I2.3
ER -
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Ilić, V.. (2017). "Having it all" and "not having yourself" An analysis of the representations of happiness and despair in the movie Happiness. in Etnoantropološki problemi
Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju, Beograd., 12(2), 379-413.
https://doi.org/10.21301/EAP.V12I2.3
Ilić V. "Having it all" and "not having yourself" An analysis of the representations of happiness and despair in the movie Happiness. in Etnoantropološki problemi. 2017;12(2):379-413.
doi:10.21301/EAP.V12I2.3 .
Ilić, Vladimira, ""Having it all" and "not having yourself" An analysis of the representations of happiness and despair in the movie Happiness" in Etnoantropološki problemi, 12, no. 2 (2017):379-413,
https://doi.org/10.21301/EAP.V12I2.3 . .
