The dark power of belonging : The T-Shirt
Abstract
In The T-Shirt, disagreement overflows into brutal confrontation, as the two characters provoke each other to act out roles preordained by the power of symbols. What Freud called the ‘narcissism of minor differences’ is rendered here as social pathology, dramatized in miniature in the violent encounter of two ordinary people.
Citation
Burgoyne , R J 2017 , ' The dark power of belonging : The T-Shirt ' Short Film Studies , vol. 7 , no. 1 , pp. 93-96 . DOI: 10.1386/sfs.7.1.93_1
Publication
Short Film Studies
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2042-7824Type
Journal article
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