Alina G. Birzache

The Holy Fool in European Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9781138120587
• ISBN-10: 1138120588
• Artikelnr.: 43750897

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.