A representação da realidade social em The Big Lebowski

This dissertation aims at analyzing the movie The Big Lebowski (1998), written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.Owing to the great amount of stylistic devices deployed to construct the narrative, the movie has been regarded as an unequivocal example of a postmodern work.Not only does the narrative feed on countless cultural references, through the recycling of former texts and the mixture of genres and styles, but it also relies on many other techniques, such as the repetition of visual motifs, the recurrent use of clichés and the fragmented storytelling.On the other hand, despite the postmodern aesthetics, it is difficult to overlook the existence of a historical content, as many relevant themes abound in the narrative flow.The Gulf War, the Reaganism and the political movements of the sixties are some of the themes found in the movie, which is set in the city of Los Angeles in the early nineties.In this sense, our hypothesis is that the movie brings forth a contradiction between two opposing tendencies: the postmodern aesthetics and the representation of the historical content

Aesthetics · Art · Content (measure theory · Contradiction · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Post-industrial society · Postmodernism · Repetition (rhetorical device · Representation · Sociology · Storytelling · Computer Science · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · History · Law · Literature, Culture, and Criticism · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism

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