Medialna rzeczywistość w „Truman Show” (1998) Petera Weira w perspektywie myśli gnostyckiej

• Authors: Kwiatkowski, Fryderyk

Title variants

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Media reality in “Truman Show” (1998) by Peter Weir in the perspective of gnostic thought

Abstracts

EN

In the author’s opinion the story depicted in "The Truman Show" (1998) by Peter Weir comprises a reinterpretation of a Gnostic myth about the liberation of a „divine spark” from the material world. In spite of the fact that the director did not know about Gnosticism before he started to make the film, the author of the article presents that many motifs in his work can be viewed through the ideas expressed in various Gnostic systems. The Gnostic notions were reinterpreted in "The Truman Show" on a fundamental level of the world being presented in as well as in the narrative structure of the movie.

Keywords

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gnosticism; pop-culture; Hollywood; film

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Collectanea Philologica
• Year: 2015
• Volume: Numer specjalny

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Kwiatkowski, Fryderyk

other

Uniwersytet Jagielloński

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Fryderyk Kwiatkowski – he graduated with a Masterʼs Degree in Film Stu- dies at the Institute of the Audio-visual Arts of the Jagiellonian University in Kra- ków. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Philosophy of the same university. He prepares his dissertation about gnostic motifs in contemporary pop culture. He is interested in philosophy of film, Western esotericism in the context of history of religion, history of philosophy and the influence of esoteric traditions on contemporary culture

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/18386

DOI

10.18778/1733-0319.S15.03