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By Alina G. Birzache

ISBN-10: 1138120588

ISBN-13: 9781138120587

This monograph explores the way in which that the profile and the severe features of the holy idiot have built in eu cinema, permitting this conventional determine to catch the mind's eye of recent generations in an age of spiritual pluralism and secularization. Alina Birzache lines the cultural origins of the determine of the holy idiot throughout numerous eu traditions. In so doing, she examines the serious capabilities of the holy idiot in addition to how filmmakers have used the determine to reply to and critique facets of the trendy global. utilizing a comparative method, this examine for the 1st time bargains a entire rationalization of the long-lasting allure of this protean and engaging cinematic personality. Birzache examines the trope of holy foolishness in Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, French cinema, and Danish cinema, corresponding largely to and allowing research of the 3 major orientations in ecu Christianity: Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant. This learn could be of prepared curiosity to students of faith and picture, eu cinema, and comparative religion.

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