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Preposterous Revelations: Visions of Apocalypse and Martyrdom in Hollywood Cinema 1980-2000 (Bible in the Modern World)

This book is an ambitious attempt to produce an interdisciplinary reading of a set of relatively recent Hollywood films that appear to make references to the biblical genre of apocalyptic and associated ideas of Christian martyrdom and eschatology: End of Days, Armageddon, Alien3, The Rapture, The Seventh Sign. It is a 'preposterous' reading (Mieke Bal's term), reversing a common-sense impulse to view what comes first chronologically (the biblical text) as an unproblematic template rather than as itself the consequence of subsequent, contextualized readings. The cinematic reworkings Copier describes shift our understanding of both texts (biblical and cinematic) and genre. Within this process, the apocalyptic subject-the martyr-adopts variable poses that reflect the effects of this disorienting reversal: across the five films analysed, the martyr moves from identifiably Christian motivations to the representation of patriotic American masculinity, or even to something that, in a contrary sense, powerfully challenges the conventional masculinity of any martyrdom that counts as significant. To achieve a genuine interdisciplinarity, Copier not only avoids reading each film as if it were simply the visual counterpart to a (biblical) narrative, but also analyses in the case of each film what the 'shot list' of a key sequence reveals about the semiotics at work within its construction. Unlike most encounters between religion and film, her film analysis goes far beyond the identification of themes and motifs. Here the author engages with the larger field of film studies, and especially with film as a visual medium.


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Kolektif CERF Bible Bediüzzaman Said Nursi 1 Ocak 2019 Kessinger Publishing 1 Haziran 2018 Independently Published 1 Ocak 2015 Hodder & Stoughton Religious 1 Ocak 2017 Cambridge University Press 1 Ocak 2018 Arif Pamuk Gale and The British Library Yusuf Tavaslı 4 Ocak 2017 Muhyiddin İbn Arabi
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Yazar Laura Copier
İsbn 10 1907534245
İsbn 13 978-1907534249
Yayın Evi Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
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tarafından gönderildi Preposterous Revelations: Visions of Apocalypse and Martyrdom in Hollywood Cinema 1980-2000 (Bible in the Modern World) 31 Ocak 2012

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