
Film als Midrasch
Der Golem, Dybbuks und andere kabbalistische Elemente im populären Kino
Klaus S. Davidowicz(Author)
Brill Deutschland (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 5. December 2016
Book
Hardback
155 pages
978-3-8471-0673-9 (ISBN)
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Description
The book explores the conscious usage of Jewish mystical themes and motifs in popular (as well as arthouse) cinema from the silent film era to the present. This historical, as well as geographic, arc spanning from Paul Wegener's Golem (1920) to films such as David Goyer's The Unborn (2009), Ang Lee's Life of Pi (2012) or David Aronofsky's Noah (2014), is held together by a tightly argued and detailed discussion of both the kabbalist elements themselves and their presence in film and television.Organized in four interrelated parts, the study focuses on mystical secrets of the Hebrew alphabet (where each letter is attributed a numerical value and each number has a hidden meaning), the idea of the Dybbuk as an exiled soul looking for a bodily home, the Lurianic concepts of Tzimtzum (contraction) and Tikkun olam (repair of the world) and, finally, the legend of the Golem, whose Prague origins have been reworked not only in numerous movies but also in popular US television shows including the X-Files and The Simpsons.
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Series
Studien zur jüdischen Literatur und Kunst / Studies in Jewish Literature and Art
6
Language
German
Place of publication
Göttingen
Germany
Publishing group
V&R unipress
Dimensions
Height: 23.7 cm
Width: 16 cm
Thickness: 1.8 cm
Weight
350 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8471-0673-9 (9783847106739)
Schweitzer Classification
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Klaus S. Davidowicz
Film als Midrasch
Der Golem, Dybbuks und andere kabbalistische Elemente im populären Kino
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Prof. Dr. Klaus S. Davidowicz lehrt Judaistik an der Universität Wien. Sein Forschungsschwerpunkt liegt auf der Rolle des Spielfilms als moderner Midrasch - als visuelle Form jüdischer Auslegung, Erinnerung und Traditionsbildung. Er untersucht die Darstellung, Deutung und Transformation jüdischer Narrative im Medium Film.
ISNI: 0000 0001 0938 4678
ISNI: 0000 0001 0938 4678