The Horror of (a) Playing God: Job's Nightmare and Michael Haneke's Funny Games
: Michael Haneke's film Funny Games (1997; American remake 2007) offers a potent critique of violence as entertainment, but on a deeper level, in its depiction of the diabolical games that can produce horrific suffering, the film reasserts the philosophical/theological "problem of evil.&qu...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2012]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2012, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 230-246 |
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Michael Haneke
B the Bible and film B Theodicy B Violence in film B Violence in the media B problem of evil B Book of Job B Funny Games |
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Summary: | : Michael Haneke's film Funny Games (1997; American remake 2007) offers a potent critique of violence as entertainment, but on a deeper level, in its depiction of the diabolical games that can produce horrific suffering, the film reasserts the philosophical/theological "problem of evil." Placing Funny Games in dialogue with the Book of Job, this article argues that Haneke's film poses a radical challenge to standard narratives of redemption and exposes the experiential core of the often abstracted "problem" of seemingly unwarranted suffering. |
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ISSN: | 1703-289X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.24.2.230 |