| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Communications
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: within unrest, there is always a question / Eva Badowska and Francesca Parmeggiani -- Rules and virtues: the moral insight of the Decalogue / William Jaworski -- Tablets of stone, tablets of flesh: synesthetic appeal in the Decalogue / Joseph G. Kickasola -- Decalogue one: witnessing a responsible ethics of response from a Jewish perspective / Moshe Gold -- Visual reverberations: Decalogue two and Decalogue eight / Eva M. Stadler -- Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy: Decalogue three / Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. -- Decalogue four: "you are completely free and I pretend it doesn't affect me at all" / Anne-Katrin Titze -- Decalogue five: a short film about killing, sin, and community / Michael Baur -- States of exception: politics and poetics in Decalogue six / Eva Badowska -- Decalogue seven: a tale of love, failing words, and moving images / Francesca Parmeggiani -- Decalogue eight: childhood, emotion, and the shoah / Emma Wilson -- Divine possession: metaphysical covetousness in Decalogue nine / Philip Sicker -- Laughter makes good neighbors: sociability and the comic in Decalogue ten / Regina Small. |
| Summary |
This collection is the first to offer a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue, a ten-film cycle of modern tales that touch on the ethical dilemmas of the Ten Commandments. The cycle's deft handling of moral ambiguity and inventive technique established Kieślowski as a major international director. Kieślowski once said, "Both the deep believer and the habitual skeptic experience toothaches in exactly the same way." Of Elephants and Toothaches takes seriously the range of thought, from theological to skeptical, condensed in the cycle's quite human tales. Bringing together scholars of film, philosophy, literature, and several religions, the volume ranges from individual responsibility, to religion in modernity, to familial bonds, to human desire and material greed. It explores Kieślowski's cycle as it relentlessly solicits an ethical response that stimulates both inner disquiet and interpersonal dialogue. |
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Dekalog (Television program)
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Kieślowski, Krzysztof, 1941-1996 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Kieślowski, Krzysztof, 1941-1996. (OCoLC)fst00287784
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Dekalog (Television program) (OCoLC)fst01386522
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Television programs -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Poland.
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Religion on television.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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Religion on television. (OCoLC)fst01737566
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Television programs -- Moral and ethical aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01147044
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Poland. (OCoLC)fst01206891
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Badowska, Eva, editor.
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Parmeggiani, Francesca, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9780823267101 0823267105 9780823269273 0823269272 (DLC) 2015017365 (OCoLC)909326345 |
| ISBN |
9780823267132 (electronic bk.) |
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082326713X (electronic bk.) |
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9780823267125 (electronic bk.) |
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0823267121 (electronic bk.) |
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0823267105 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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9780823267101 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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9780823269273 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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0823269272 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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