Bearing Witness: The Sight of a Sacrifice in Cristian Mungiu's Beyond the Hills
Drawing on the theories of sacrifice advanced by Sigmund Freud (1913) and René Girard (1972; 1982), this article interprets the exorcism depicted by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu in Beyond the Hills (2012) as a sacrifice. Explicating Girard’s defence of Freud, I use his framing of sacrifice as a...
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| Language: | English |
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2016
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The journal of religion and film
Year: 2016, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, Pages: 1-28 |
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Sacrifice
Rene Girard
Violence and the Sacred
Scapegoat
Sigmund Freud
Totem and Taboo
Sexuality
Cristian Mungiu
Beyond the Hills
Religion
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