{"id":1787,"date":"2008-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2008\/01\/12\/the-contemporary-mass-culture-of-escapism-the-individual-and-society-a-study-in-parallel-to-the-film-being-john-malkovich\/"},"modified":"2008-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"the-contemporary-mass-culture-of-escapism-the-individual-and-society-a-study-in-parallel-to-the-film-being-john-malkovich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2008\/01\/12\/the-contemporary-mass-culture-of-escapism-the-individual-and-society-a-study-in-parallel-to-the-film-being-john-malkovich\/","title":{"rendered":"The Contemporary Mass Culture of Escapism: the Individual and Society, a Study in Parallel to the Film Being John Malkovich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Territory: Escapism, our obsession, need for it. What I will use to do this: My mind, Psychology, Fromm, Sociology. We are the only species on this planet that routinely, and necessarily require some form of detachment from our existence. I want to explore this need of ours to escape from the perspective of the protagonist Craig Schwartz in the film \u2018Being John Malkovich\u2019. As well as using an individual\u2019s perspective I hope to look at society as a whole, the way it is driven by a mainstream commercialist economy and how this affects our need to subvert our reality from time to time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piers Hopkins, 2008, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,22,128],"tags":[62,159,28],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-518","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-cinema","tag-consumerism","tag-identity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}