Medieval Saints and Modern Screens : Divine Visions as Cinematic Experience /

Medieval Saints and Modern Screens : Divine Visions as Cinematic Experience /

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The thirteenth-century Latin hagiographic works known as the "Holy Women of Liege" corpus presents biographies filled with dramatic visions of God and intense physical unions with Christ. The texts that make up the collection demonstrate the problematic division of body and soul in the per...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spencer-Hall, Alicia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Saints in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
Middle Ages in motion pictures.
Hagiography.
HISTORY > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
hagiographies (works)
Cinema > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Cinema > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Hagiographie.
Moyen Âge au cinema.
Saints au cinema.
Motion pictures > History > 21st century.
Motion pictures > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Ecstatic cinema, cinematic ecstasy
  • Play/pause/rewind : temporalities in flux
  • The caress of the divine gaze
  • The Xtian factor, or How to manufacture a medieval saint
  • My avatar, my soul : when mystics log on
  • Conclusion : The living Veronicas of Liege.

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