Resumen de El personaje en el cine mainstream: de la crítica social al individualismo
Marc Plana Botey
The crisis in the community is a key issue in current political philosophy: the difficult relation between individualand society is a major topic in Rawls, Amartya Sen or Todorov. The way to individualism opened since modernityresulted in ultra-liberal governments and the idea of a self-sufficient individual. It is also a common place among filmtheorist (Langford, Hammond) to list individualist discourses as post-classical key points in cinema: the masculinityand authority rearmament or the proto-fascist hero are some examples. However, the Foucault perspective aboutthe individual (who is thought as a created social discourse) should enable to search individualist discourses allover other narrative models. In this text, I will try to show the individualist discourse in political cinema born in the70’s, after Vietnam and Watergate (e.g. Network). The premise of this cinema is not the individual apology through adiscrediting of every social institution, but the corruption complaint. However, it shows a social mistrust sensibility thatlike Michela Marzano or Peter Biskind. In this text, it will be shown the narrative patterns that facilitate the recurrenceof this sensibility nowadays (e.g. the pursued innocent, the rebel...) and their interaction with social sensibilitieswhich are skeptical towards the external to the individual. The aim is to present this ideological environment as thebasis for characterizing and motivate the current hero. That is, the hero is not individualistic due to a political choice:the hero is individualistic because society gives him no choice but individualism, a worrying message for the newglobal world.
