Playing the Victim: Violence, Suffering, and Feminine Submission in The Passion of the Christ

This essay critically interrogates the graphic violence that defines the 2004 blockbuster The Passion of the Christ. It reads that violence in terms of theologies of suffering, opposing liberation theologians who privilege empathetic victimhood with Jesus as a goad to social activism against context...

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Main Author: Maddux, Kristy (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2008]
In: Journal of media and religion
Year: 2008, Volume: 7, Issue: 3, Pages: 150-169
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