An edition of Face to face with angels
(2010)
Face to face with angels
images in medieval art and in film
by Sandra Gorgievski
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"This book is the first comparative study of sacred medieval images of angels and their cinematic treatment, including both the medieval and modern imaginations. The text traces the functions of angels and their reworking in film, then takes particular note of new icons like the female angel and others who become models for our connection with transcendence"--Provided by publisher.
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Face to Face with Angels: Images in Medieval Art and in Film
2010, McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
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0786457562 9780786457564
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Face to face with angels: images in medieval art and in film
2010, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
in English
0786442204 9780786442201
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Introduction : from sacred images of angels to new icons?
Angels serving the creator : views of heaven in a "post-ideological" world?
From the medieval cosmic hierarchy to frightful mechanization
Fighting angels and hyperbolic cohorts : from archangel Michael and celestial militia to modern fear of the apocalypse
Music-making angels : from the music of the spheres to show business
Angelic functions : mediation between the divine and the mundane. Jacob's ladder
Staging the Bible : archangel Gabriel of the Annunciation
Consolation, compassion and comfort : the guardian angel in comedies
The female angel. Female stereotypes of domestic bliss
Mother figures
The angel of death as femme fatale
The dishonored virgin or virtue rewarded
Otherness : from absolute otherness to human forms of otherness. The self as other/mapping the other's territory
Crossing over to the human world
Angelic allusions in some science fiction films
Metaphors of incommunicability
Conclusion.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
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