1st Edition
Hermeneutic Humility and the Political Theology of Cinema Blind Paul
By Sean Desilets
Copyright 2016
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book revisits the tradition of Western religious cinema in light of scholarship on St. Paul’s political theology. The book’s subtitle derives from the account in the Book of Acts that St. Paul was temporarily blinded in the wake of his conversion on the road to Damascus. In imitation of Paul, the films on which Sean Desilets’s analysis hinges (including those of Carl-Th. Dreyer, Robert... Read more
Introduction Part 1: Humble Body/Humble Image 1. Mary’s Infidelity 2. Messianic Duration Part 2: The Economy of the Event 3. Seemly Economy 4. Twelve Events 5. Weak Apocalypticism
Biography
Sean Desilets is Associate Professor of Film Studies, English, and Gender Studies at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. He has published essays in Camera Obscura, Literature/Film Quarterly, Film Criticism, and Studies in French Cinema.
