Comments on: Promoting Dispositionism through Entertainment – Part I

By: aflam arabia

aflam arabia — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:20:01 +0000

Nice Work man Your blog is so great.Thanks very much for posting this topic

By: Cheering for the Underdog « The Situationist

Cheering for the Underdog « The Situationist — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:02:36 +0000

[...] that tendency on several ocassions, most substantively in Jon Hanson and Michael McCann’s Promoting Dispsitionism through Entertainment series, which, by studying the films Rocky Balboa and The Pursuit of Happyness, showed how system [...]

By: Promoting Dispostionism through Entertainment - Part III « The Situationist

Promoting Dispostionism through Entertainment - Part III « The Situationist — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:06:12 +0000

[...] by Jon Hanson & Michael McCann on April 20th, 2007 In Part I of this series, we described how Americans pursue happiness by watching heroes like Rocky Balboa [...]

By: Promoting Dispostionism through Entertainment - Part II « The Situationist

Promoting Dispostionism through Entertainment - Part II « The Situationist — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:04:35 +0000

[...] Promoting Dispositionism through Entertainment – Part I [...]

By: Jon Hanson

Jon Hanson — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:23:11 +0000

Great point. Good movies, good literature, good journalism, good history, good art, often challenge the simplistic dispositionist stories of individualism and will and encourage their audience to consider the power of hard-to-see situation. Feel good movies, in contrast, generally render disposition central and situation insignificant.
To be sure, “feel good movies” can be “good movies,” and plenty of good movies are not situationist in orientation. But, as your example illustrates, the movies and other media that take a situationist perspective are rarely palatable for large audiences, even when they are critically acclaimed. -Jon & Mike

By: Doug S.

Doug S. — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:51:44 +0000

There's one recent movie that actually hammers home the opposite message, and that's the recent Best Picture winner Crash. Characters are portrayed as having a certain set of attitudes and personality traits, and then are put into situations in which they, quite believably, end up doing things that appear to be contrary to the tendencies that they were showing in the beginning of the movie because of the situations in which they found themselves.