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oapen-20.500.12657-300852024-03-25T09:51:48Z Of Elephants and Toothaches Badowska, Eva Parmeggiani, Francesca politics media and communications moral and ethical aspects religion on television God Limousin dialect Ten Commandments thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticism 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. 2018-05-18 23:55 2019-12-19 16:56:51 2020-04-01T12:44:54Z 2020-04-01T12:44:54Z 2016 book 650015 OCN: 1076652940 9780823267101 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30085 eng application/pdf n/a 650015.pdf Fordham University Press 10.26530/OAPEN_609947 103471 10.26530/OAPEN_609947 f501c751-7a51-484b-b90a-ed0912c4e53f b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780823267101 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 253 NY 103471 KU Round 2 609947 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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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