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

• Autore: Exum J. Cheryl
• Pubblicazione: Sheffield, Eng., : Sheffield Academic Press, c1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
• Disciplina: 220.83054; 791.43/6822
• Soggetto topico: Bible films - History and criticism; Women in motion pictures; Women in the Bible; Women in art
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Plotted, shot, and painted
• ISBN: 1-281-81412-1; 9786611814120; 0-567-23429-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827577703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Gender, culture, theory ; ; 3.; Journal for the study of the Old Testament. . -Supplement series ; ; 215.