You Cannot Be in Love with a Word: Theologies of Embodiment in Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc", Axel's "Babette's Feast" and von Trier's "Breaking the Waves"

My article investigates the representation and significance of the suffering female body in three films by Danish male directors operating in a religious framework: Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Axel’s Babette’s Feast (1987) and von Trier’s Breaking the Waves (1996). In these films the...

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Main Author: Birzache, Alina (Author)
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Journal of religion, media and digital culture
Year: 2014, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 8-30
Further subjects:B Religious sociology
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