Of elephants and toothaches : : ethics, politics, and religion in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue / / Eva Badowska and Francesca Parmeggiani, editors.
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 Kieslowski.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Fordham University Press,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-Title ; Title; 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 Community8. 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; 12. Laughter Makes Good Neighbors: Sociability and the Comic in Decalogue Ten; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Index; A ; B ; C ; D ; E ; F ; G ; H ; I ; J ; K ; L ; M ; N ; O ; P ; R ; S ; T ; U ; V ; W ; Y ; Z