1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910155800503321

Autore

Käßmann Margot

Titolo

Mehr als fromme Wünsche

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Herder Verlag, 2011

ISBN

9783451336355

3451336359

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Disciplina

201

Soggetti

Christian life

Christianity

Life -- Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Wankendes Vertrauen""""Volkstrauertag""; ""Antisemitismus""; ""Totensonntag""; ""Das Kainsmal""; ""Gnade vor Recht?""

Sommario/riassunto

Fußballfest und »Entlassungsproduktivität«, Krankheit, Krieg und Sommersegen. Das Leben ist eine Achterbahn von Wunsch und Wirklichkeit. Mehr als fromme Wünsche hat die bekannteste Theologin Deutschlands, Margot Käßmann. Für die Welt, das Leben und für uns. Was das Leben bewegt, worüber wir nachdenken sollten, was trägt und was wirklich wichtig ist.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484041903321

Autore

Skweres Artur

Titolo

McLuhan’s Galaxies: Science Fiction Film Aesthetics in Light of Marshall McLuhan’s Thought / / by Artur Skweres

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-04104-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (132 pages)

Collana

Issues in Literature and Culture, , 2365-9688

Disciplina

791.43

791.43615

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Television broadcasting

Literature and technology

Mass media and literature

Aesthetics

Film and Television Studies

Literature and Technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Clothes Make the Man – The Relation Between the Sensual and the Sexual in Blade Runner (1982) -- Star Wars as an Aesthetic Melting Pot -- Horror vacui and the Critique of Visual Society in Alien and Terminator Films -- The Digital Natives and the Implosion of Humanity in The Matrix and Avatar.

Sommario/riassunto

This groundbreaking book uses observations made by Marshall McLuhan to analyze the aesthetics of science fiction films, treating them as visual metaphors or probes into the new reality dominated by electronic media: - it considers the relations between the senses and sensuality in Blade Runner, the visually-tactile character of the film, and the status of replicants as humanity’s new clothes; - it analyzes the mixture of Eastern and Western aesthetics in Star Wars, analyzing Darth Vader as a combination of the literate and the tribal mindset; - it discusses the failure of visual society presented in the Terminator and Alien franchises, the rekindling of horror vacui, tribalism, and the



desire to obliterate the past as a result of the simultaneity of the acoustic space; - finally, the book discusses the Matrix trilogy and Avatar as being deeply related in terms of the growing importance of tactility, easternization, tribalization, as well as connectivity and the implosion of human civilization.