The Truman Show, Into The Wild ve Hollywood Sinemasının Sahte Eleştirelliği
The Truman Show, Into The Wild and The Pseudo Opposition of Hollywood

Summary/Abstract: There is a common belief that the major products of mainstream cinema, particularly commercial American cinema, are the producers of the current dominant ideological and political climate. However it is also frequently stated that there are some examples placing themselves in a critical position despite their mainstream character. The movies, The Truman Show and Into the Wild are considered as critical examples of mainstream cinema due to their conflict relations and narratives. This study will suggest that those two mentioned films have a semantic relationship based on their conflict relationships and will evaluate the ethical and ideological values that derive from the main ideas of the films within their relationship with the transformation of capitalism. Since the last quarter of the twentieth century, various arguments have been proposed that contemporary capitalism has entered a process of transformation. In this study that transformation will be discussed in the context of Michel Foucault’s concept of “disciplinary societies” and the neoliberal govermentality that replace these social organizations and the narratives of the selected films will be evaluated in a way that corresponds to this discussion. In this context the critical arguments of the films will be compared to the transformation of capitalism. Considering the institutions that capitalism abondon and the new subjectivity that is produced; it will be claimed that the movies The Truman Show and Into the Wild are not critical, contrarily they contain a narrative and dynamics of conflict that are coherent to the dominant political climate.

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