The Banality of Ghosts
In The Act of Killing, (Joshua Oppenheimer, ID, DK 2012), Joshua Oppenheimer searches for humanness by assessing the rituals, routines and grammar of former perpetrators who played a role during the 1965/6 genocide in Medan, Indonesia. This article puts The Act of Killing in the context of Oppenheim...
| Published in: | Journal for religion, film and media |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institut f. Fundamentaltheologie
[2018]
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| In: |
Journal for religion, film and media
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Violence
/ Humanity
/ The act of killing (Documentary film)
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KBM Asia ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Ghosts
B archaeological performance B Joshua Oppenheimer B 66 / Indonesian genocide 1965 B Perpetrators B re-enactment |
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| Summary: | In The Act of Killing, (Joshua Oppenheimer, ID, DK 2012), Joshua Oppenheimer searches for humanness by assessing the rituals, routines and grammar of former perpetrators who played a role during the 1965/6 genocide in Medan, Indonesia. This article puts The Act of Killing in the context of Oppenheimer's writings on film and violence and explores how this film negotiates humanness by working with a missionary paradigm of expressive guilt that not only serves the director, but also a critical audience with a happy ending. |
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| ISSN: | 2617-3697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for religion, film and media
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.25364/05.4:2018.1.2 |