Wicked Cinema: Sex and Religion on Screen
Autor Daniel S. Cutraraen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mar 2014
Wicked Cinema examines films from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, including Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Circle, Breaking the Waves, Closed Doors, Agnes of God, Priest, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Dogma. Central to all of the films is their protagonists’ struggles with sexual transgression and traditional belief systems within Christianity, Judaism, or Islam—a struggle, Cutrara argues, that positions believers as the Other and magnifies the abuses of religion while ignoring its positive aspects. Uncovering a hazardous web of ideological assumptions informed by patriarchy, the spirit/flesh dichotomy, and heteronormativity, Cutrara demonstrates that ultimately these films emphasize the “Otherness” of the faithful through a variety of strategies commonly used to denigrate the queer, from erasing their existence, to using feminization to make them appear weak, to presenting them as dangerous fanatics.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781477307533
ISBN-10: 1477307532
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 1477307532
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Daniel S. Cutrara is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe. A former Catholic priest sent by his Jesuit order to study film, he has worked for Hollywood production companies as a story analyst and is currently developing screenplays in addition to conducting research and teaching.
Cuprins
Preface
Introduction
1. Sex and Religion: At Ground Zero of the Culture Wars
2. Faith: Transgressing Gender and the Possibility of God
3. The Faithful: Freedom and Fanaticism
4. Sacred Servants: Desiring the Forbidden
5. Transgressing Divinity: Gospels of Envy
6. The Believer in Bondage
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1. Sex and Religion: At Ground Zero of the Culture Wars
2. Faith: Transgressing Gender and the Possibility of God
3. The Faithful: Freedom and Fanaticism
4. Sacred Servants: Desiring the Forbidden
5. Transgressing Divinity: Gospels of Envy
6. The Believer in Bondage
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Descriere
With close readings of films such as The Last Temptation of Christ, Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Closed Doors, this book investigates cinematic representations of transgressive sexuality within Christianity, Judaism, and Islam to argue that religious beli