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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782210203321

Autore

Exum J. Cheryl

Titolo

Plotted, shot, and painted [[electronic resource] ] : cultural representations of biblical women / / J. Cheryl Exum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, Eng., : Sheffield Academic Press, c1996

ISBN

1-281-81412-1

9786611814120

0-567-23429-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Collana

Gender, culture, theory ; ; 3

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 215

Disciplina

220.83054

791.43/6822

Soggetti

Bible films - History and criticism

Women in motion pictures

Women in the Bible

Women in art

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 indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; List of Figures; Chapter 1 BATHSHEBA PLOTTED, SHOT, AND PAINTED; Chapter 2 MICHAL AT THE WINDOW, MlCHAL IN THE MOVIES; Chapter 3 THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE; Chapter 4 PROPHETIC PORNOGRAPHY; Chapter 5 IS THIS NAOMI?; Chapter 6 WHY, WHY, WHY, DELILAH?; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

... introduces the reader to an extraordinarily rich variety of critical experiences, which far transcends the limitations of conventional biblical scholarship' (Prooftexts). This provocative collection of essays begins where Exum's earlier literary-feminist study, Fragmented Women, left off: with the questioning of the androcentric bias of the biblical text and with the aim of subverting its patriarchal perspective. It moves on to stake out new territory for feminist biblical criticism by considering what happens to biblical women in popular culture, in art, and in film and by foregrounding q