The Binding of Abraham: Inverting the Akedah in Fail-Safe and WarGames
This article draws upon Søren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and Jacques Derrida's The Gift of Death to trace how two exemplars of atomic bomb cinema reinterpret the Binding of Isaac (Akedah). Released during the twin peaks of Cold War tension, Fail-Safe (1964) and WarGames (1983) invert...
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| Language: | English |
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2015
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The journal of religion and film
Year: 2015, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-29 |
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Lumet, Sidney 1924-2011
/ Fail-Safe
/ Badham, John 1939-
/ WarGames
/ Genesis
/ Kierkegaard, Søren 1813-1855, Frygt og bæven
/ Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004, Donner la mort
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| RelBib Classification: | HB Old Testament VA Philosophy ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
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Fail-Safe
WarGames
Cold War Cinema
Atomic Bomb Cinema
Akedah
Aqedah
Genesis 22
Sacrifice
Abraham and Isaac
Fear and Trembling
Kierkegaard
Derrida
The Gift of Death
Norman Morrison
George Segal
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