Film als Midrasch - Der Golem, Dybbuks und andere kabbalistische Elemente im populären Kino

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.

Info autore

Klaus S. Davidowicz, geb. 1963 in Berlin. Magisterstudium der jüdischen Studien an der Heidelberger Hochschule für Jüdische Studien und der Pädagogik und Germanistik an der Universität Heidelberg. 1993 Promotion an der Universität Wien im Fach Judaistik, von 1994 - 1998 Universitätsassistent am Institut für Judaistik an der Universität Wien, Habilitation 1998, seitdem ausserordentlicher Universitäts-Professor für Judaistik an der Universität Wien, seit 2003 AHS-Lehrer für Jüdische Geschichte am ZPC-Gymnasium Wien. Forschungsschwerpunkt ist die jüdische Philosophie- und Geistesgeschichte, wovon seine Bücher (Gershom Scholem und Martin Buber (1995); Kabbala, geheime Traditionen im Judentum (1999)) und Artikel zeugen.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Klaus S Davidowicz, Klaus S. Davidowicz
• Editore: V&R unipress
• Lingue: Tedesco
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 16.01.2017
• EAN: 9783847106739
• ISBN: 978-3-8471-0673-9
• Pagine: 155
• Dimensioni: 160 mm x 240 mm x 14 mm
• Peso: 355 g
• Illustrazioni: Mit 15 Abbildungen
• Serie: Poetik, Exegese und Narrative; Poetik, Exegese und Narrative / Poetics, Exegesis and Narrative; Poetik, Exegese und Narrative / Poetics, Exegesis and Narratives 006; Poetik, Exegese und Narrative / Poetics, Exegesis and Narrative; Poetik, Exegese und Narrative; Poetik, Exegese und Narrative / Poetics, Exegesis and Narratives; Poetik, Exegese und Narrative / Poetics, Exegesis and Narratives 006
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze umane, tematiche generali