Medieval Saints and Modern Screens Divine Visions as Cinematic Experience
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,...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
2017.
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| Colección: | De Gruyter Open Access ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45115254*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Ecstatic Cinema, Cinematic Ecstasy; The Agape-ic Encounter; Ecstatic Cinema; Cinematic Ecstasy; The â#x80;#x98;Holy Women of LiÃg̈eâ#x80;#x99;; A Collective Audience; Cinematic Hagiography; Mysticism and Popular Culture; Beyond the Frame; Overview of Chapters; 1 Play / Pause / Rewind: Temporalities in Flux; The Miracle of Photography; Photographic and Sacred Time; Saints as Photographs; Pressing Play: Cinematic Reanimation(s); Execution Films; Resurrection, Resuscitation, and Unfulfilled Promises; The Purgatorial Body; Liturgical Time; Purgatorial Time.
- Putting Things into Perspective2 The Caress of the Divine Gaze; Look, and Look Again; Baconâ#x80;#x99;s Synthesis Theory; Becoming What You See: The Cinesthetic Subject; God the Projector; Feeling What You See: Sensual Catechresis; The Collective Spectatorial Body; Coresthesia: Reading, Seeing, and Touching the Corpus; 3 The Xtian Factor, or How to Manufacture a Medieval Saint; Marie of Oignies, the Celebrity Saint; An Anti-Cathar Poster Girl; Marie the Mystical Chanteuse; Jacques of Vitry, Star Preacher; Hairdressers to the Stars; Celebrity Role-Models; Margery Kempeâ#x80;#x99;s Fanfictions.
- Keeping Up With KempeFans in the Academy; 4 My Avatar, My Soul: When Mystics Log On; Vision, Presence, and Virtual Reality; Situating SL: Disentangling Television, Film, and Virtual Worlds; The Online Communion of Saints; â#x80;#x98;Logging Onâ#x80;#x99; to the Communion of Saints; Of Avatars and Offline Bodies; The Agony and the Ecstasy of Technology; Crucifixion Online; Men, Women, and Heterodoxy; Gender-Swapping to Level Up; Agency and Dependence; Conclusion: The Living Veronicas of LiÃg̈e; Unveiling the Veronicas; Lively Relics; Bargaining: Agency and Impotence; The Other Women, Glimpsed in the Mirror.
- AbbreviationsBibliography; Index; List of Tables and Figures; Table 1â#x80;#x83;Corpus summary data; Figure 1â#x80;#x83;Map of the Low Countries, c. 1100-c. 1500; Figure 2â#x80;#x83;Map of the southern Low Countries in the thirteenth century, showing principal towns and regions; Figure 3â#x80;#x83;Dioceses in the southern Low Countries, 1146-1559; Figure 4â#x80;#x83;The first beguine communities in Brabant-LiÃg̈e (c. 1200-c. 1230); Figure 5â#x80;#x83;â#x80;#x98;Face of Christ Superimposed on an Oak Leafâ#x80;#x99;, photogenic drawing by Johann Carl Enslen (1839); Figure 6â#x80;#x83;Radiation through the glacial (or crystalline) humour according to Roger Bacon.
- Figure 7â#x80;#x83;Manuscript illustration of Olibrius the prefect, with abrasionsFigure 8â#x80;#x83;Manuscript illustration of St. Margaret, unmarked, between two guards, with head and feet erased; Figure 9â#x80;#x83;Section of manuscript folio, showing text of Augustineâ#x80;#x99;s Confessions (left) and medieval commentatorâ#x80;#x99;s notes (right); Figure 10â#x80;#x83;Parchment mitre commissioned by Jacques de Vitry (front); Figure 11â#x80;#x83;Parchment mitre commissioned by Jacques de Vitry (back); Figure 12â#x80;#x83;Second Life advertisement featuring Avatar-style avatar (â#x80;#x98;Navitarâ#x80;#x99;) from 2010.
- Figure 13â#x80;#x83;Authorâ#x80;#x99;s avatar using a prayer pose in a Second Life Catholic church.
