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- Title
Do I Exist?: Transcendent Subjects and Secrets in The Sixth Sense.
- Authors
Foust, ChristinaR.; Soukup, Charles
- Abstract
Like many recent films, The Sixth Sense poses existentialist concerns. We argue that the film challenges capitalist regimes of everyday life by creating tension between the postindustrial subject and the “secret” of being. However, the film's narrative ultimately supports the “everyday” with a transcendence that overcomes the other and his secret. While the film resonates with an American culture increasingly wary of consumer and professional identities as the means to experience a full and rich life, the film reinforces the idea that it is through a professional identity that one may comfortably manage the trauma of having one's existence called into question.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CAPITALISM; CULTURE; CONSUMERS; INVESTORS; EXISTENTIALISM; SIXTH Sense, The (Film)
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2006, Vol 70, Issue 2, p115
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570310600710026