Reflections on the Uncritical Appropriation of Cinematic Christ-Figures: Holy Other or Wholly Inadequate?
The aim of this paper is to offer a critical response to Anton Karl Kozlovic's article, published in the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture in 2004, on "The Structural Characteristics of the Cinematic Christ-figure." Even though one may be able to discern a parallel between a fil...
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Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2006]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2006, Volume: 13, Issue: 1 |
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Summary: | The aim of this paper is to offer a critical response to Anton Karl Kozlovic's article, published in the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture in 2004, on "The Structural Characteristics of the Cinematic Christ-figure." Even though one may be able to discern a parallel between a film character and the person of Christ, I argue that Kozlovic's tendency to impose Christian motifs on to films rests on the false assumption that all of the facets of Christ's life and work can be fitted into a particular typology, such that a film either does, or does not, have the necessary definitional properties. I propose adopting a new approach to the theology-film field which entails not the pursuit of redundant thematic parallels but asking whether or not a two-fold dialogical relationship between theology and film and between Christ and Christ-figure can emerge. |
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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.13.1.001 |