{"product_id":"alien-sex","title":"Alien Sex","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerard Loughlin is one of the leading theologians working at the interface between religion and contemporary culture. In this exceptional work, he uses cinema and the films it shows to think about the church and the visions of desire it displays.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiscusses various films, including the Alien quartet, Christopher Nolan's \u003ci\u003eMemento\u003c\/i\u003e, Stanley Kubrick's \u003ci\u003e2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e, Nicolas Roeg's \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Fell to Earth\u003c\/i\u003e and Derek Jarman's \u003ci\u003eThe Garden\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDraws on a wide range of authors, both ancient and modern, religious and secular, from Plato to Levinas, from Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar to André Bazin and Leo Bersani.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUses cinema to think about the church as an ecclesiacinema, and films to think about sexual desire as erotic dispossession, as a way into the life of God.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWritten from a radically orthodox Christian perspective, at once both Catholic and critical.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54217052455256,"sku":"9780631211792","price":131.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780631211792__676ec5348c9f1.jpg?v=1741156976","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/alien-sex","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}