The dark power of belonging: The T-Shirt

Robert James Burgoyne

doi:10.1386/sfs.7.1.93_1

The dark power of belonging: The T-Shirt

Robert James Burgoyne

Film Studies

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Abstract

In The T-Shirt, disagreement overflows into brutal confrontation, as the two characters provoke each other to act out roles preordained by the power of symbols. What Freud called the ‘narcissism of minor differences’ is rendered here as social pathology, dramatized in miniature in the violent encounter of two ordinary people.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	93-96
Number of pages	4
Journal	Short Film Studies
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1386/sfs.7.1.93_1
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2017

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Keywords

America
Slovakia
Baseball
Flag
Nationalism
Religion
Symbols
Violence

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