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Angelaki
Bataille
Ben Trovato
biopolitics in media
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Christmas Eve
cinema
continental philosophy
Costica Bradatan
Dirty Pretty Things
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION
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ethical representation
Eve
faith
film
film theory
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Ghost Director
Instrument Of Torture
interdisciplinary study of sacrifice
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Jaguar Paw
Life Forms
Long Shots
Majid's Suicide
Majid’s Suicide
Mikhail Bakunin
Moderns
myth
mythic narratives
Patricia Pisters
Perishes
philosophy of religion
Phy
political philosophy
religion
religious symbolism
sacrifice
Self-Transcendence
society
Spain
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the body
Theodicy
Traditional Inuit Culture
Transcendence
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781138196889
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Jun 2017
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Cinema has a long history of engaging with the theme of sacrifice. Given its capacity to stimulate the imagination and resonate across a wide spectrum of human experiences, sacrifice has always attracted filmmakers. It is on screen that the new grand narratives are sketched, the new myths rehearsed, and the old ones recycled. Sacrifice can provide stories of loss and mourning, betrayal and redemption, death and renewal, destruction and re-creation, apocalypses and the birth of new worlds.

The contributors to this volume are not just scholars of film but also students of religion and literature, philosophers, ethicists, and political scientists, thus offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between cinema and sacrifice. They explore how cinema engages with sacrifice in its many forms and under different guises, and examine how the filmic constructions, reconstructions and misconstructions of sacrifice affect society, including its sacrificial practices.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities.

About
Costica Bradatan is Professor of Humanities at Texas Tech University, USA, and Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland, Australia. He has authored or edited several books, including Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers (2015) and Philosophy as a Literary Art: Making Things Up (2014). Camil Ungureanu is Lecturer in Political Theory at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. He is co-editor of Law, State and Religion in the New Europe (2012) and Jϋrgen Habermas' Theory of Law and Democracy (2011). His work has been published in a number of journals including the Journal of Political Philosophy and the European Journal of Political Theory.