Reel Kabbalah: Jewish mysticism and neo-Hasidism in contemporary cinema
Pi : divine madness and the Kabbalistic blurring of worlds -- Ushpizin : the narrow mystical bridge between the sacred and the profane -- Bee season : academic Kabbalah for the New Age big screen -- The secrets and the 'Alma di-Itkasiya : on Tikkun, cinematic feminism, and the Kabbalah of Safed...
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| Type de support: | Imprimé Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
| Vérifier la disponibilité: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New Brunswick, Camden Newark, New Jersey
Rutgers University Press
[2024]
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| Dans: | Année: 2024 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Kabbale
/ Hassidisme (Motif)
/ Film
/ Histoire 1998-2010
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| Classifications IxTheo: | BH Judaïsme TK Époque contemporaine ZG Sociologie des médias; médias numériques; Sciences de l'information et de la communication |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Jews in motion pictures
B Cabala in motion pictures |
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Table des matières Quatrième de couverture |
| Résumé: | Pi : divine madness and the Kabbalistic blurring of worlds -- Ushpizin : the narrow mystical bridge between the sacred and the profane -- Bee season : academic Kabbalah for the New Age big screen -- The secrets and the 'Alma di-Itkasiya : on Tikkun, cinematic feminism, and the Kabbalah of Safed -- A serious nan : mystical wonder, Jewish literacy, and serious indeterminacy. "Reel Kabbalah: Jewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema studies the ways in which fictional film in the first decade of the twenty-first century represents the esoteric Jewish speculative traditions known as Kabbalah and Hasidism. It examines the textual and conceptual traditions behind five important cinematic representations: Pi (1998), Ushpizin (2004), Bee Season (2005), The Secrets (2007), and A Serious Man (2009), and it considers how film both stands in continuity with those traditions and modifies them in the New Age vein of what is known as neo-Kabbalah and neo-Hasidism. Brian Ogren transforms our understanding of reception history by focusing on how cinema has altered perceptions of Jewish mysticism. In showing how the Jewish speculative traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism have been able to affect mass-consumed cinematic portrayals of ultimate Truth, this book sheds light on the New Age, pop-cultural dialectic of the particular within the universal and of the universal within the particular"-- Provided by publisher |
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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Description matérielle: | vii, 176 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 978-1-9788-4024-9 978-1-9788-4025-6 |
