Medieval saints and modern screens : divine visions as cinematic experience /

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The thirteenth-century Latin hagiographic works known as the "Holy Women of Liège" corpus presents biographies filled with dramatic visions of God and intense physical unions with Christ. The texts that make up the collection demonstrate the problematic division of body and soul in the pe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Spencer-Hall, Alicia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Series:Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 3.
Subjects:
1900-2099
Saints in motion pictures.
Middle Ages in motion pictures.
Hagiography.
Motion pictures > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > History > 21st century.
Saints au cinéma.
Moyen Âge au cinéma.
Hagiographie.
Cinéma > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Cinéma > Histoire > 21e siècle.
hagiographies (works)
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
HISTORY > General.
Hagiography
Middle Ages in motion pictures
Motion pictures
Saints in motion pictures
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Ecstatic cinema, cinematic ecstasy
  • Play/pause/rewind : temporalities in flux
  • The caress of the divine gaze
  • The Xtian factor, or How to manufacture a medieval saint
  • My avatar, my soul : when mystics log on
  • Conclusion : The living Veronicas of Liège.

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