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Record Nr.

UNINA9910477180403321

Titolo

Of elephants and toothaches : ethics, politics, and religion in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue / / Eva Badowska and Francesca Parmeggiani, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8232-6712-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Disciplina

791.45/72

Soggetti

Television programs - Poland - Moral and ethical aspects

Religion on television

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-Title ;  Title;  Copyright; Contents; Introduction: "Within unrest, there is always a question"; 1. Rules and Virtues: The Moral Insight of The Decalogue; 2. Tablets of Stone, Tablets of Flesh: Synesthetic Appeal in The Decalogue; 3. Decalogue One: Witnessing a Responsible Ethics of Response from a Jewish Perspective; 4. Visual Reverberations: Decalogue Two and Decalogue Eight; 5. Remember the Sabbath Day, to Keep It Holy: Decalogue Three; 6. Decalogue Four: The Mother up in Smoke, or "Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother"

7. Decalogue Five: A Short Film about Killing, Sin, and Community8. States of Exception: Politics and Poetics in Decalogue Six; 9. Decalogue Seven: A Tale of Love, Failing Words, and Moving Images; 10. Decalogue Eight: Childhood, Emotion, and the Shoah; 11. Divine Possession: Metaphysical Covetousness in Decalogue; 12. Laughter Makes Good Neighbors: Sociability and the Comic in Decalogue Ten; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Index; A ; B ; C ; D ; E ; F ; G ; H ; I ; J ; K ; L ; M ; N ; O ; P ; R ; S ; T ; U ; V ; W ; Y ; Z

Sommario/riassunto

A multi- and interdisciplinary collection of essays addressing ethical, political and aesthetic questions raised in the ten-film cycle Decalogue (1989) by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski.