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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主要作者: Ogren, Brian (Author)
格式: Print 图书
语言:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
出版: New Brunswick, Camden Newark, New Jersey Rutgers University Press [2024]
In:Year: 2024
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B 卡巴拉 / 哈瑞迪犹太教 (Motiv) / 电影 / 历史 1998-2010
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
TK Recent history
ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies
Further subjects:B Jews in motion pictures
B Cabala in motion pictures
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总结: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
实物描述:vii, 176 Seiten
ISBN:978-1-9788-4024-9
978-1-9788-4025-6