Abstract
The 1998 film, The Truman Show, is a carefully executed lie that plays on our sense of media manipulation. The central argument within The Truman Show is that of the phoniness of our culture, thus questioning what is right, wrong, truth and lie. This essay examines the development of an anti-media saturation argument through Birth, Family and Resurrection metaphors by following the lead character, Truman Burbank, as he discovers a new frontier of innerspace. Because values are central to analyzing the frontier myth in film, this essay employs Frentz and Rushing's (1978) Social Value Model to discover how lead character, Truman Burbank, and director, Christof, represent juxtaposing values of morality and materialism.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
33
Issue
2
First Page
38
Last Page
52
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Powell, Kimberly A.
(2001)
"The Frontier to Innerspace: Arguments Against a Mass-Mediated Culture in The Truman Show,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 33:
No.
2, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol33/iss2/5
Copyright
©2001 Iowa Communication Association
