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Of elephants and toothaches : ethics, politics, and religion in Krzysztof Kieślowski's Decalogue / Eva Badowska and Francesca Parmeggiani, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Badowska, Eva
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kieślowski, Krzysztof, 1941-1996--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kieślowski, Krzysztof.
- Dekalog (Television program).
- Television programs--Moral and ethical aspects--Poland.
- Television programs.
- Religion on television.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (189 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- NY Fordham University Press 2016
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-6711-3
- 9780823267132
- 082326713X
- 9780823267118
- 0823267113
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