Religious Imaging in Millennialist America Dark Gnosis /
Ashley Crawford investigates how such figures as Ben Marcus, Matthew Barney, and David Lynch-among other artists, novelists, and film directors-utilize religious themes and images via Christianity, Judaism, and Mormonism to form essentially mutated variations of mainstream belief systems. He seeks t...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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| ISBN: | 9783319991726 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Chapter 1: Introduction: American Gnosis
- Chapter 2. Delirium: A brief history of America's religious founding(s).-Chapter 3: Dualism: An exploration of good and evil via David Lynch's films.-Chapter 4 Delusion: On Mormon and Masonic symbolism in Matthew Barney's CREMASTER films
- Chapter 5: Deconstruction: On Judaic law and the apocalypse of language in Ben Marcus' The Flame Alphabet
- Chapter 6: Dereliction and Defecation: On the religious underpinnings in Matthew Barney's Subliming Vessel and Ben Marcus' Leaving the Sea and the apocalyptic imaging of Matthew Barney's River of Fundament
- Chapter 7. Dark Gnosis.