Zierler Movies and Midrash

Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6616-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Brings popular cinema and Jewish religious texts into a meaningful dialogue.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zierler, Wendy I.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Borowitz, Eugene B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The Truman Show: Truth

2. Magnolia: Confession and Redemption

3. The Descendants: Birthright: Consent versus Descent

4. On Memento: Remaking Memory from the Outside In

5. Crimes, Misdemeanors, and Sin

6. Forrest Gump: Cleverness and Simplicity

7. The King’s Speech: Speaking God’s Word

8. Stranger than Fiction: God as Author

9. A Serious Man: Parables of Jewishness

10. Exam: Tests, Trials, and Attachments

11. The Hunger Games: In God’s Image

Conclusion Moonrise Kingdom: And the Youth Shall See Visions

Appendix I On the Design of “Reel Theology,” from e-mail archives
Appendix II More Movies and Midrash: Additional Film Resources

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wendy I. Zierler is Sigmund Falk Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion and the author of And Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women's Writing.