RT Article
T1 A Path Less Traveled: Rethinking Spirituality in the Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky
JF The journal of religion and film
VO 19
IS 2
SP 1
OP 25
A1 Breckenridge, Adam C.
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1563479370
AB This essay seeks to add to the scholarship around the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky by looking at how Jodorowsky challenge to mainstream religion and spirituality in two of his major films: El Topo and The Holy Mountain. I situate both these films within their cultural context and, working with Slavoj Zizek’s idea of the sadistic trap, explore how they challenge not only mainstream religious beliefs but countercultural ones as well. By doing so, I hope to cast some light on what makes the subversive nature of his films so valuable and to provide some guidance to two films that can be quite overwhelming to try to understand.
K1 Alejandro Jodorowsky : El Topo : The Holy Mountain : Slavoj Zizek : Counterculture