The Holy Fool in European Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781138368583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 220 str.

Alina G. Birzache

Opis

This monograph explores the way that the profile and the critical functions of the holy fool have developed in European cinema, allowing this traditional figure to capture the imagination of new generations in an age of religious pluralism and secularization.

Spis treści

Introduction.  1. The Pauline Holy Fool and Its Successors.  2. Speaking Truth to Power: The Holy Fool in Soviet and Russian Cinema.  3. Holy Fools in the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky.  4. The Suffering Fool in French Cinema.  5. The Bressonian Holy Fool. 6. The Fool’s Challenge to Reason in Danish Cinema.  7. Idiocy as Technique: The Dogme 95 Movement. Conclusion.

O autorze

Alina G. Birzache was an assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Bucharest before she moved to the United Kingdom where she obtained a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. She has interests in religious representations in art, literature and film and has published on these topics.