Acción y pasiones colectivas: The Lawless de Joseph Losey

The Article is about “collective passions”, namely those emotive forms that dominate the action of whole groups, and therefore seem to escape the classic models that intend passions as “inner states”, so as necessarily individual phenomena. The hypothesis assumed in the article, and developed through an analysis of the narrative and discursive structures of Joseph Losey’s film The Lawless, is that passions, instead of hitting “magically” more individuals simultaneously, assume a fundamental role in the building of the “collective”, forcing individuals (Actors) within those pre-established and stereotyped forms of identity that in structural semiotics are called “Thematic Roles”.