Religious imaging in millennialist America: dark gnosis
"Ashley Crawford investigates how such figures as Ben Marcus, Matthew Barney, and David Lynch - among other artists, novelists, and film directors - utilize religious themes and images via Christianity, Judaism, and Mormonism to form essentially mutated variations of mainstream belief systems....
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Cham, Switzerland
Palgrave Macmillan
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Film
/ Millennialism
/ Gnosis
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| RelBib Classification: | AZ New religious movements KBQ North America |
| Further subjects: | B
Religion
Social aspects
B Religion and the social sciences B Imagery (Psychology) B Religion and culture |
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Table of Contents Blurb Presumably Free Access Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | "Ashley Crawford investigates how such figures as Ben Marcus, Matthew Barney, and David Lynch - among other artists, novelists, and film directors - utilize religious themes and images via Christianity, Judaism, and Mormonism to form essentially mutated variations of mainstream belief systems. He seeks to determine what drives contemporary artists to deliver implicitly religious imagery within a 'secular' context. Particularly, how religious heritage and language, and the mutations within those, have impacted American culture to partake in an aesthetic of apocalyptism that underwrites it"--Back cover |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-304) and index |
| ISBN: | 331999171X |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99172-6 |