From Mimesis to Disclosure: A Deleuzian Reading of Truth in Dystopian Cinema
Journal: Arts Studies and Criticism DOI: 10.32629/asc.v6i6.4747
Abstract
Focusing on the core issue of the fictionality of cinema and the possibility of approaching truth, this article reexamines the relationship between film and truth from a philosophical perspective. Employing literature analysis and philosophical interpretation as its primary research methods, the study reviews Plato’s critique of mimesis and the theory of Ideas, Aristotle’s notion of poetic truth, Gadamer’s hermeneutic aesthetics, and Deleuze’s philosophy of cinema. Through close textual analysis and case studies of The Truman Show and The Giver, the article argues that film is not opposed to truth; rather, it constitutes a mode of truth-disclosure that takes aesthetic experience and the revelation of existence as its pathways.
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art, philosophy, aesthetics, film, truth
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