メディア・セレブリディとアメリカン・ヒロイズム : ジャージ・コジンスキーの『ビーイング・ゼア』

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• Jerzy Kosinski's third novel Being There (1971) ironically features a superficial media celebrity as an accidental achiever of the American dream of success. With the appearance on television "by chance", the Adamic hero named Chance, a simple-minded orphan having lived within the boundaries of his guardian's garden, is pitched into leadership of the public, which leads him to get nominated for vice presidency. The object of this paper is to examine how such a totalitarian hero-making process by way of the mass media influences the tradition of American fiction, and moreover, to explore the critical possibilities of this novel in the light of media studies, together with a brief analysis of a few prophetic messages that Chance's mode of existence reveals.

• 西九州大学の論文
• 2008-03-01

著者

• 渡邉 真理子

  西九州大学健康福祉学部社会福祉学科

• 渡邉 真理子

  西九州大学

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