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Medieval saints and modern screens : divine visions as cinematic experience / Alicia Spencer-Hall.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 3.Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations (some color), mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048532179
  • 9048532175
  • 9789048551293
  • 9048551293
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medieval saints and modern screens.DDC classification:
  • 791.43/682 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.S234 S64 2018eb
Online resources:
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 Liège.
Summary: The thirteenth-century Latin hagiographic works known as the "Holy Women of Liège" 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 period and also reveal the potential of text to transmit visual experiences. This book explores those qualities of the texts using the latest developments in film theory, taking up such topics as the relationship of film to mortality, embodied spectatorship, celebrity studies, and digital environments
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-289, filmography (pages 289-291), and index.

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 Liège.

The thirteenth-century Latin hagiographic works known as the "Holy Women of Liège" 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 period and also reveal the potential of text to transmit visual experiences. This book explores those qualities of the texts using the latest developments in film theory, taking up such topics as the relationship of film to mortality, embodied spectatorship, celebrity studies, and digital environments

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