Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology

Gerard Loughlin9780631211808, 0631211802

Книга Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and TheologyКниги Религия. Эзотерика Автор: G. R. Evans Год издания: 2004 Формат: pdf Издат.:Wiley-Blackwell Страниц: 336 Размер: 1,6 Mb ISBN: 0631211802 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:This short and accessible book introduces readers to the problems of heresy, schism and dissidence over the last two millennia. The heresies under discussion range from Gnosticism, influential in the early Christian period, right through to modern sects.Gerard Loughlin is one of the leading theologians working at the interface between religion and contemporary culture. In this exceptional work, he uses cinema and the films it shows to think about the church and the visions of desire it displays. Discusses various films, including the Alien quartet, Christopher Nolan’s Memento, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange, Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth and Derek Jarman’s The Garden. Draws on a wide range of authors, both ancient and modern, religious and secular, from Plato to Levinas, from Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar to Andrй Bazin and Leo Bersani. Uses cinema to think about the church as an ecclesiacinema, and films to think about sexual desire as erotic dispossession, as a way into the life of God. Written from a radically orthodox Christian perspective, at once both Catholic and critical.