Of Elephants and Toothaches
Of Elephants and Toothaches

Author: Eva Badowska

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2016-06-15

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0823267113

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This collection is the first to offer a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Decalogue, a ten-film cycle of modern tales that touch on the ethical dilemmas of the Ten Commandments. The cycle’s deft handling of moral ambiguity and inventive technique established Kieślowski as a major international director. Kieślowski once said, “Both the deep believer and the habitual skeptic experience toothaches in exactly the same way.” Of Elephants and Toothaches takes seriously the range of thought, from theological to skeptical, condensed in the cycle’s quite human tales. Bringing together scholars of film, philosophy, literature, and several religions, the volume ranges from individual responsibility, to religion in modernity, to familial bonds, to human desire and material greed. It explores Kieślowski’s cycle as it relentlessly solicits an ethical response that stimulates both inner disquiet and interpersonal dialogue.

Of Levinas and Shakespeare
Of Levinas and Shakespeare

Author: Moshe Gold

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2018-03-15

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1612495427

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Scholars have used Levinas as a lens through which to view many authors and texts, fields of endeavor, and works of art. Yet no book-length work or dedicated volume has brought this thoughtful lens to bear in a sustained discussion of the works of Shakespeare. It should not surprise anyone that Levinas identified his own thinking as Shakespearean. "The play's the thing" for both, or put differently, the observation of intersubjectivity is. What may surprise and indeed delight all learned readers is to consider what we might yet gain from considering each in light of the other. Comprising leading scholars in philosophy and literature, Of Levinas and Shakespeare: "To See Another Thus" is the first book-length work to treat both great thinkers. Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth dominate the discussion; however, essays also address Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice, and even poetry, such as Venus and Adonis. Volume editors planned and contributors deliver a thorough treatment from multiple perspectives, yet none intends this volume to be the last word on the subject; rather, they would have it be a provocation to further discussion, an enticement for richer enjoyment, and an invitation for deeper contemplation of Levinas and Shakespeare.

On Extremity
On Extremity

Author: Nelson Varas-Díaz

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-06-12

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1666905216

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On Extremity: From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences brings together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words, and experiences (human and non-human) to reflect on the polysemic and polymorphic characteristics of extremity and the category of the extreme. The editors and authors aim to contribute to a living, breathing, and expanding definition of extremity that helps us understand what we gain, or lose, when we interact with it, create it, and share it with, or force it upon, others. The volume calls for the emergence of “extremity studies” as an area of perusal to help us navigate our current global condition.

Deep Focus (Engaging Culture)
Deep Focus (Engaging Culture)

Author: Robert K. Johnston

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2019-03-19

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 149341691X

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Three media experts guide the Christian moviegoer into a theological conversation with movies in this up-to-date, readable introduction to Christian theology and film. Building on the success of Robert Johnston's Reel Spirituality, the leading textbook in the field for the past 17 years, Deep Focus helps film lovers not only watch movies critically and theologically but also see beneath the surface of their moving images. The book discusses a wide variety of classic and contemporary films and is illustrated with film stills from favorite movies.

The Quintessence of the Wild
The Quintessence of the Wild

Author: Esther E. du Preez

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1496982975

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After Seth Tzimbi had finished his schooling, his mother sent him to say good-bye to her father, a Khoisan cave painter. Animals and nature had always intrigued him, theref or he was elated when he had the chance of raising a tiger cub. Mitch Bourne, a Secret Agent who had rescued him and other children in Zimbabwe, en route to Nigeria (in "The Spiderweb") invited him to visit her in Great Britain. He wanted to become a Secret Agent, and make the world a better place to live in. At Oxford University he started to study Veterinary Science and proceeded with his studies at the legendary Padua University while Mitch obtained permission to train him as a Secret Agent. They were both sent to South Africa on a mission to catch poachers of ivory and rhino horn. Mitch fell in love with a fellow undercover Agent, Andrew Short. After romancing her, they were married. He was recruited as a medical doct or by Chinese smugglers. Seth, was passed off as a doct or and accompanied him. Mitch and Seths' two sisters were abducted by the poachers and sold to the Chinese. In Singapore, she was forced to kill two sailors when she and the girls escaped from the S.S. Shanghai. Unsure of what the future held in store, they returned to South Africa and picked up the threads of their lives.