Reel Kabbalah studies representations of esoteric Jewish conceptual traditions known as Kabbalah and Hasidism in five important fictional films from the first decade of the twenty-first century. The book considers how film both stands in continuity with those traditions and modifies them in the New Age, often mystical vein of what is known as neo-Kabbalah and neo-Hasidism.
Reel Kabbalah studies representations of esoteric Jewish conceptual traditions known as Kabbalah and Hasidism in five important fictional films from the first decade of the twenty-first century. The book considers how film both stands in continuity with those traditions and modifies them in the New Age, often mystical vein of what is known as neo-Kabbalah and neo-Hasidism.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
BRIAN OGREN is the Anna Smith Fine Professor of Judaic Studies and the chair of the Religion Department at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is the author of Kabbalah and the Founding of America, The Beginning of the World in Renaissance Jewish Thought, and Renaissance and Rebirth.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Contemporary Film and the New Age of Kabbalistic and Hasidic Folklore Chapter 1: Pi: Divine Madness and the Kabbalistic Blurring of Worlds Chapter 2: Ushipizin: The Narrow Mystical Bridge between the Sacred and the Profane Chapter 3: Bee Season: Academic Kabbalah for the New Age Big Screen Chapter 4: The Secrets and 'Alma di-Itkasiya: On Tikkun, Cinematic Feminism, and the Kabbalah of Safed Chapter 5: A Serious Man: Mystical Wonder, Jewish Literacy, and Serious Indeterminacy Conclusion: Neo-Kabbalah through the Cinematic Lens Acknowledgments Notes Index
Introduction: Contemporary Film and the New Age of Kabbalistic and Hasidic Folklore Chapter 1: Pi: Divine Madness and the Kabbalistic Blurring of Worlds Chapter 2: Ushipizin: The Narrow Mystical Bridge between the Sacred and the Profane Chapter 3: Bee Season: Academic Kabbalah for the New Age Big Screen Chapter 4: The Secrets and 'Alma di-Itkasiya: On Tikkun, Cinematic Feminism, and the Kabbalah of Safed Chapter 5: A Serious Man: Mystical Wonder, Jewish Literacy, and Serious Indeterminacy Conclusion: Neo-Kabbalah through the Cinematic Lens Acknowledgments Notes Index
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