Loughlin Alien Sex

The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77515-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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Reihe: Challenges in Contemporary Theology

Gerard Loughlin is one of the leading theologians working at theinterface between religion and contemporary culture. In thisexceptional work, he uses cinema and the films it shows to thinkabout the church and the visions of desire it displays.
* * Discusses various films, including the Alien quartet,Christopher Nolan's Memento, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: ASpace Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange, Nicolas Roeg's The ManWho Fell to Earth and Derek Jarman's The Garden.
* Draws on a wide range of authors, both ancient and modern,religious and secular, from Plato to Levinas, from Karl Barth andHans Urs von Balthasar to André Bazin and Leo Bersani.
* Uses cinema to think about the church as an ecclesiacinema, andfilms to think about sexual desire as erotic dispossession, as away into the life of God.
* Written from a radically orthodox Christian perspective, atonce both Catholic and critical.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loughlin, Gerard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures viii
In the Lobby ix
Part I Introduction 1
1 Desiring Bodies 3
Part II Cavities 33
2 Seeing in the Dark 35
3 Visionary Screens 65
Part III Copulations 103
4 Alien Sex 105
5 God's Sex 133
6 Sex Slaves 173
7 Want of Family 201
Part IV Consolations 227
8 The Man Who Fell to Earth 229
9 The Garden 257
Index 295

Über Autor(innen)

Gerard Loughlin is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He is a founding co-editor of the journal Theology & Sexuality.