ISBN:
9789048532179
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (304 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Knowledge communities
Uniform Title:
Screening sanctity: modern visual theory and divine visions in thirteenth-century female saints’ lives from the Low Countries
Dissertation note:
Dissertation University College London (UCL) 2014
DDC:
791.43/682
Keywords:
Saints in motion pictures
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Middle Ages in motion pictures
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Hagiography
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Motion pictures History 20th century
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Motion pictures History 21st century
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History
;
History
;
Electronic books
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Hochschulschrift
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Heiligenbild
;
Vision
;
Mystik
;
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
;
Film
Abstract:
The thirteenth-century Latin hagiographic works known as the "Holy Women of Liège" corpus presents biographies filled with dramatic visions of God and intense physical unions with Christ. The texts that make up the collection demonstrate the problematic division of body and soul in the period and also reveal the potential of text to transmit visual experiences. This book explores those qualities of the texts using the latest developments in film theory, taking up such topics as the relationship of film to mortality, embodied spectatorship, celebrity studies, and digital environments
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