Face to face with angels : images in medieval art and in film / Sandra Gorgievski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gorgievski, Sandra.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Angels in motion pictures.

Angels in art.

Art, Medieval.

Physical Description:

viii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2010]

Summary:

"This book is the first comparative study of sacred medieval images of angels and their cinematic treatment, including both the medieval and modern imaginations. The text traces the functions of angels and their reworking in film, then takes particular note of new icons like the female angel and others who become models for our connection with transcendence"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : from sacred images of angels to new icons?

Angels serving the creator : views of heaven in a "post-ideological" world?

From the medieval cosmic hierarchy to frightful mechanization

Fighting angels : from archangel Michael and celestial militia to modern fear of the apocalypse

Music-making angels : from the music of the spheres to show business

Angelic functions : mediation between the divine and the mundane. Jacob's ladder

Staging the Bible : archangel Gabriel of the Annunciation

Consolation, compassion and comfort : the guardian angel in comedies

The female angel. Female stereotypes of domestic bliss

Mother figures

The angel of death as femme fatale

The dishonored virgin or virtue rewarded

Otherness : from absolute otherness to human. The self as other/mapping the other's territory

Crossing over to the human world

Angelic allusions in some science fiction films

Metaphors of incommunicability

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

9780786442201

0786442204

OCLC:

601050204