Noah as Antihero
Author | : Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2017-04-21 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1351720708 |
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction: Russell Crowe's Knees and Darren Aronofsky's Vision -- 1 An Ongoing Tradition: Aronofsky's Noah as 21st-Century Rewritten Scripture -- 2 Rock Giants and the Magic Stone of Torah: Allusions to Esoteric and Extra-Biblical Literature in Noah -- 3 Retelling the Biblical Story of Noah: Jewish and Christian Perspectives -- 4 Moving Beyond 'Fatwā This!': On the Possibility of Human Redemption in Noah, The Ark, and Islamic Tradition -- 5 Seeing Is Believing: Aronofsky's Noah and Cinematic Spectacle -- 6 Commercial Configurations of Scriptural Temporality: Noah as a Blockbuster -- 7 Noah: Aronofsky's Nuancing of the Biblical Epic -- 8 The Presence and Hiddenness of God in Noah -- 9 "How-How Is This Just?!": How Aronofksy and Handel Handle Noah's Curse -- 10 'Real' Women and Multiple Masculinities in Aronofsky's Noah -- 11 'It's Not the End of the World': Aronofsky's Noah and IMAXed Apocalyptic Animals -- 12 The Innocent, the Image, and the White Imagination: Noah as Ecological Mythology -- Index