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Antihumanist narratives: Greed and Source Code.

The article explores specific, rare, antihumanist narrative possibilities in Hollywood cinema signified by two films Erich von Stroheim's "Greed" and Duncan Jones's "Source Code." Topics discussed include capacity for a political aesthetics predicated on antihumanist representation, intellectual, te...

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Published in:Screen Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 1 - 18
Main Authors: BISHOP, RYAN, CUBITT, SEAN
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Spring2017
Subjects:
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) in motion pictures
Von Stroheim, Erich, 1885-1957
Greed (Film : 1924)
Jones, Duncan, 1971-
Source Code (Film)
Naturalism
Motion pictures
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article explores specific, rare, antihumanist narrative possibilities in Hollywood cinema signified by two films Erich von Stroheim's "Greed" and Duncan Jones's "Source Code." Topics discussed include capacity for a political aesthetics predicated on antihumanist representation, intellectual, technological and cultural conditions of possibility for the salience of such representational interventions and naturalism in the motion pictures.