Of elephants and toothaches ethics, politics, and religion in Krzysztof Kieślowski's Decalogue
This collection is the first to offer a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue, a ten-film cycle of modern tales that touch on the ethical dilemmas of the Ten Commandments. The cycle's deft handling of moral ambiguity and inventive technique established Ki...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Fordham University Press
2016, 2016
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| Edition: | First edition |
| Series: | Open Access e-Books
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Introduction: within unrest, there is always a question / Eva Badowska and Francesca Parmeggiani
- Rules and virtues: the moral insight of the Decalogue / William Jaworski
- Tablets of stone, tablets of flesh: synesthetic appeal in the Decalogue / Joseph G. Kickasola
- Decalogue one: witnessing a responsible ethics of response from a Jewish perspective / Moshe Gold
- Visual reverberations: Decalogue two and Decalogue eight / Eva M. Stadler
- Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy: Decalogue three / Joseph W. Koterski, S.J.
- Decalogue four: "The Mother Up in Smoke, or "Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother" / Gabriella Ripa di Meana
- Decalogue five: a short film about killing, sin, and community / Michael Baur
- States of exception: politics and poetics in Decalogue six / Eva Badowska
- Decalogue seven: a tale of love, failing words, and moving images / Francesca Parmeggiani
- Decalogue eight: childhood, emotion, and the shoah / Emma Wilson
- Divine possession: metaphysical covetousness in Decalogue nine / Philip Sicker
- Laughter makes good neighbors: sociability and the comic in Decalogue ten / Regina Small