Of elephants and toothaches : ethics, politics, and religion in Krzysztof Kieślowski's Decalogue / Eva Badowska and Francesca Parmeggiani, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Badowska, Eva, editor.

Parmeggiani, Francesca, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kieślowski, Krzysztof, 1941-1996--Criticism and interpretation.

Kieślowski, Krzysztof.

Dekalog (Television program).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.

Summary:

A multi- and interdisciplinary collection of essays addressing ethical, political and aesthetic questions raised in the ten-film cycle Decalogue (1989) by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction: "Within unrest, there is always a question"

1. Rules and Virtues: The Moral Insight of The Decalogue

2. Tablets of Stone, Tablets of Flesh: Synesthetic Appeal in The Decalogue

3. Decalogue One: Witnessing a Responsible Ethics of Response from a Jewish Perspective

4. Visual Reverberations: Decalogue Two and Decalogue Eight

5. Remember the Sabbath Day, to Keep It Holy: Decalogue Three

6. Decalogue Four: The Mother up in Smoke, or "Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother"

7. Decalogue Five: A Short Film about Killing, Sin, and Community

8. States of Exception: Politics and Poetics in Decalogue Six

9. Decalogue Seven: A Tale of Love, Failing Words, and Moving Images

10. Decalogue Eight: Childhood, Emotion, and the Shoah

11. Divine Possession: Metaphysical Covetousness in Decalogue Nine

12. Laughter Makes Good Neighbors: Sociability and the Comic in Decalogue Ten

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-6711-3