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The Movies- Constructions Of Reality And Sources Of Metaphors The Movies- Constructions Of Reality And Sources Of Metaphors, Robert D. Benjamin. You can still go to movies for pure entertainment and "escapism," but don't disregard the impact of movies on our culture and miss the opportunity to draw from them lines, meanings, and metaphors that are useful in your mediation practice. Your selected article and the entire Mediate.com Library are yours for free. First we need a small amount of information to best serve you: I am: a member of the public a mediator (including attorney-mediator) an attorney other dispute resolution professional My area code is: or no area code (International) Thanks for the opportunity to serve you. Privacy Why we ask You can still go to movies for pure entertainment and "escapism," but don't disregard the impact of movies on our culture and miss the opportunity to draw from them lines, meanings, and metaphors that are useful in your mediation practice. Movies are one of the most potent contributors to our popular culture, and they give us a glimpse of the realities we have constructed for ourselves. The topics, themes and dialogue of movies express our conventional wisdom-our truths, beliefs and values about the world we live in. In short, they represent our operative mythology and folklore (as Joseph Campbell or Claude Levi-Strauss might say). That conventional wisdom sets out what's right or wrong, good or bad, and gives rise to our sense of optimism or pessimism about the world. Movies deal with the exact same issues that mediators do in their daily practice of managing conflict: love and attachment, separation and loss, and ultimately, good and evil. How screen stories approach and suggest the resolution of those conflicts reflects and represents how people in their daily lives deal with the same issues. Their fears, stresses, hatreds, and the cathartic or ambiguous resolution of the same are graphically illustrated and then carried along with them out of theatre to contribute to the context of their next real human interaction. Full Article: http://www.mediate.com/articles/benjamin2.cfm |
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