Author

Contributions

  • Parmeggiani, Francesca - Contributor

Publication

Fordham University Press, NY, No place, unknown, or undetermined

Language

English

Word Count

63,250 words, Guess

Page Count

253 pages

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  • Better World Books9780823267101

Classifications

  • LCCPN1992.77.D44 O43 2016
  • LCCPN1992.77.D44O43

Description

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 Kie?lowski as a major international director. Kie?lowski 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 Kie?lowski?s cycle as it relentlessly solicits an ethical response that stimulates both inner disquiet and interpersonal dialogue.

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  • Of Elephants and ToothachesFordham University Press

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