The Wind Blows Where It Wishes: Metalepsis and the Gospel of John in Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped

Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped (1956) adapts its source material to refashion a French prisoner’s historical escape from Nazi captivity into an extended meditation on the Gospel of John. The film’s French title—Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut ("One Condemned to De...

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Nebentitel:Twenty More Years of Bible and Film
1. VerfasserIn: Schaser, Nicholas J. (Verfasst von)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
In: Biblical interpretation
Jahr: 2025, Band: 33, Heft: 4/5, Seiten: 338-355
weitere Schlagwörter:B Metalepsis
B Gospel of John
B Intertextuality
B Robert Bresson
B A Man Escaped
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