Religious Imaging in Millennialist America

Dark Gnosis

AvAshley Crawford

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Ashley Crawford investigates how such figures as Ben Marcus, Matthew Barney, and David Lynch—among other artists, novelists, and film directors—utilize religious themes and images via Christianity, Judaism, and Mormonism to form essentially mutated variations of mainstream belief systems.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-10-02
Mått:148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt:533 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:316
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319991719

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Ashley Crawford is a freelance cultural critic based in Melbourne, Australia, and is the author of a number of books on Australian culture.

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Chapter 1: Introduction: American Gnosis.- Chapter 2. Delirium: A brief history of America’s religious founding(s).-Chapter 3: Dualism: An exploration of good and evil via David Lynch’s films.-Chapter 4 Delusion: On Mormon and Masonic symbolism in Matthew Barney’s CREMASTER films.- Chapter 5: Deconstruction: On Judaic law and the apocalypse of language in Ben Marcus’ The Flame Alphabet.- Chapter 6: Dereliction and Defecation: On the religious underpinnings in Matthew Barney’s Subliming Vessel and Ben Marcus’ Leaving the Sea and the apocalyptic imaging of Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament.- Chapter 7. Dark Gnosis.