Mortality Plays: Pain, Penance, and Admonition in Se7en and Saw
The 1990s noir-horror film Se7en and the ongoing Saw franchise both preach a pedagogy of pain whereby victims are either fatally punished for their sins or reformed through macabre penitential ordeals. These films challenge the values of the modern, post-enlightenment world, recalling an idealized m...
| Published in: | Journal of religion and popular culture |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2011]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Further subjects: | B
Punishment
B horror film B Se7ven B Saw B Community B Penance |
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| Summary: | The 1990s noir-horror film Se7en and the ongoing Saw franchise both preach a pedagogy of pain whereby victims are either fatally punished for their sins or reformed through macabre penitential ordeals. These films challenge the values of the modern, post-enlightenment world, recalling an idealized medieval world as an alternative. This paper explores the way these films articulate this conflict and draw on conflicting elements of the Christian tradition and the conventions of the horror genre. Investigating the films' tropes of vision and spectacle and their provocative practice of homiletics, this paper ultimately considers the solution proffered a fallen world and whether this solution might offer more hope than despair. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.23.3.397 |