LEADER 05029oam 22007934a 450 001 9910372741703321 005 20230807183056.0 010 $a90-485-5129-3 010 $a90-485-3217-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9789048532179 035 $a(CKB)3840000000350266 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5231730 035 $a(DE-B1597)502604 035 $a(OCoLC)1021808088 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789048532179 035 $a(OCoLC)1281933175 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_66309 035 $a(ScCtBLL)cc93fd06-3d6b-4b1c-866e-018a05e8a386 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37272 035 $a(EXLCZ)993840000000350266 100 $a20170325h20182018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aMedieval Saints and Modern Screens$fAlicia Spencer-Hall 210 $aAmsterdam$cAmsterdam University Press$d2017 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cAmsterdam University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$d©[2018] 215 $a1 online resource (305 pages) $cillustrations, tables 225 0 $aKnowledge communities ;$v3 300 $aRevision of author's thesis (dissertation)-- University College London, 2010-2014. 311 $a94-6298-227-9 320 $aFilmography, pages 289-291. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 259-291) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tTable Of Contents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Ecstatic Cinema, Cinematic Ecstasy --$t1.Play / Pause / Rewind: Temporalities In Flux --$t2.The Caress Of The Divine --$t3.The Xtian Factor, Or How To Manufacture A Medieval Saint --$t4.My Avatar, My Soul: When Mystics Log On --$tConclusion: The Living Veronicas Of Liège --$tAbbreviations --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $a"This ground-breaking book brings theoretical perspectives from twenty-first century media, film, and cultural studies to medieval hagiography. Medieval Saints and Modern Screens stakes the claim for a provocative new methodological intervention: consideration of hagiography as media. More precisely, hagiography is most productively understood as cinematic media. Medieval mystical episodes are made intelligible to modern audiences through reference to the filmic - the language, form, and lived experience of cinema. Similarly, reference to the realm of the mystical affords a means to express the disconcerting physical and emotional effects of watching cinema. Moreover, cinematic spectatorship affords, at times, a (more or less) secular experience of visionary transcendence: an 'agape-ic encounter'. The medieval saint's visions of God are but one pole of a spectrum of visual experience which extends into our present multi-media moment. We too conjure godly visions: on our smartphones, on the silver screen, and on our TVs and laptops. This book places contemporary pop-culture media - such as blockbuster movie The Dark Knight, Kim Kardashian West's social media feeds, and the outputs of online role-players in Second Life - in dialogue with a corpus of thirteenth-century Latin biographies, 'Holy Women of Liege'. In these texts, holy women see God, and see God often. Their experiences fundamentally orient their life, and offer the women new routes to knowledge, agency, and belonging. For the holy visionaries of Liege, as with us modern 'seers', visions are physically intimate, ideologically overloaded spaces. Through theoretically informed close readings, Medieval Saints and Modern Screens reveals the interconnection of decidedly 'old' media - medieval textualities - and artefacts of our 'new media' ecology, which all serve as spaces in which altogether human concerns are brought before the contemporary culture's eyes."--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aKnowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;$v3. 606 $aFilm$2gnd$3(DE-588)4017102-4 606 $aVisuelle Wahrnehmung$2gnd$3(DE-588)4078921-4 606 $aMystik$2gnd$3(DE-588)4041003-1 606 $aVision$2gnd$3(DE-588)4063618-5 606 $aHeiligenbild$2gnd$3(DE-588)4159383-2 606 $aMotion pictures$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aMotion pictures$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aHagiography 606 $aMiddle Ages in motion pictures 606 $aSaints in motion pictures 610 $aHagiography, divine visions, film, Liège, holy women. 615 7$aFilm. 615 7$aVisuelle Wahrnehmung. 615 7$aMystik. 615 7$aVision. 615 7$aHeiligenbild. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory 615 0$aHagiography. 615 0$aMiddle Ages in motion pictures. 615 0$aSaints in motion pictures. 676 $a791.43/682 686 $aAP 50300$2rvk 700 $aSpencer-Hall$b Alicia$0985913 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910372741703321 996 $aMedieval Saints and Modern Screens$92253462 997 $aUNINA