Hermeneutic Humility and the Political Theology of Cinema: Blind Paul

ISBN-13: 9780367875107 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 198 str.

Sean Desilets

Opis

This book revisits the tradition of Western religious cinema in light of scholarship on St. Paul’s political theology. Sean Desilets engages with the films of Carl-Th. Dreyer, Robert Bresson, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Carlos Reygadas and puts forward a nuanced theoretical framework that will be useful for film scholars, students of contemporary p

Spis treści

Introduction Part 1: Humble Body/Humble Image 1. Mary’s Infidelity 2. Messianic Duration Part 2: The Economy of the Event 3. Seemly Economy 4. Twelve Events 5. Weak Apocalypticism

O autorze

Sean Desilets is Associate Professor of Film Studies, English, and Gender Studies at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. He has published essays in Camera Obscura, Literature/Film Quarterly, Film Criticism, and Studies in French Cinema.