Seeking a Meaningful Life – On the Tracks of Voluntary Simplicity in Minimalism.
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2018-06-15
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The broader field of my research revolves around voluntary simplicity, a social movement which has been discussed by scholars since the 1980s primarily with a focus on various dynamics present in American society (Bekin et al. 414). By means of a visual analysis, I am going to examine the documentary Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things (2016) in order to assess how voluntary simplicity is constructed in this nonfictional motion picture. By doing so, this research project focuses on the ways in which the core values and ideas of the concept manifest itself in the documentary, thereby exploring a neglected field of research on voluntary simplicity. Accordingly, my research question is: how is voluntary simplicity constructed in Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things? In this thesis I demonstrate that the documentary attempts to persuade its audience implicitly to follow the simplistic, anti-consumerist lifestyle embraced by the interviewed voluntary simplifiers with the help of cinematic techniques as well as simplifiers’ contributions.
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