Insights from Filmmaking for Analyzing Biblical Narrative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Insights from Filmmaking for Analyzing Biblical Narrative write by Gary Yamasaki. This book was released on 2016-10-01. Insights from Filmmaking for Analyzing Biblical Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume, Gary Yamasaki develops an innovative approach to biblical narrative, exploring the way stories are treated in filmmaking, and using that as a model for analyzing biblical stories. In our culture, the voluminous exposure we have to movies has resulted in our being conditioned to experience cinematic stories in a particular manner: for example, seeing them as events rather than objects, and the story worlds of movies as distinct from the real world. However, biblical stories are not typically viewed through this cinematic-story lens, making our analysis of biblical narrative out of step with what has become our natural mode of experiencing stories. This book demonstrates how fresh interpretive insights emerge when we read biblical stories like we watch movies. Each volume in the new Insights series discusses discoveries and insights gained into biblical texts from a particular approach or perspective in current scholarship. Accessible and appealing to today’s students, each Insight volume will discuss (1) how this method, approach, or strategy was first developed and how its application has changed over time; (2) what current questions arise from its use; (3) what enduring insights it has produced; and (4) what questions remain for future scholarship.
Perspective Criticism
Perspective Criticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perspective Criticism write by Gary Yamasaki. This book was released on 2012-11-01. Perspective Criticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The narrative material of the Bible often presents characters engaged in actions without providing explicit guidance as to how those actions are intended to be evaluated. For example, Gideon lays out a fleece in an attempt to discern God's will, but is this intended as a model to emulate, or is it intended as a picture of desperation resulting from a lack of faith? Perspective Criticism presents a new approach to solving such quandaries, finding an untapped source of evaluative guidance in the point-of-view crafting of biblical stories. Point of view has been the forgotten child in the study of biblical narratives. Now, this book gives this literary concept its due, untangling the array of storytelling devices involved in crafting point of view and demonstrating its power in shaping the very fabric of a story. Because the majority of the point-of-view devices found in biblical narratives are also used in cinematic storytelling, the book includes detailed descriptions of movie scenes utilizing these devices to provide pop-culture illustrations of the workings of point of view.
Focalization in the Old Testament Narratives with Specific Examples from the Book of Ruth
Focalization in the Old Testament Narratives with Specific Examples from the Book of Ruth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Focalization in the Old Testament Narratives with Specific Examples from the Book of Ruth write by Konstantin Nazarov. This book was released on 2021-08-02. Focalization in the Old Testament Narratives with Specific Examples from the Book of Ruth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since Gérard Genette first coined the term in 1972, focalization has been recognized as one ofthe key concepts in contemporary understandings of narrative. However, in the field of biblical studies, the concept has been largely overlooked. Dr. Konstantin Nazarov seeks to rectify this oversight, exploring the implications of focalization on Old Testament narratology. Utilizing the work of Wolf Schmid and Valeri Tjupa to develop his methodology – and examining the book of Ruth as a case study – Nazarov demonstrates the value of focalization in furthering the appreciation and understanding of biblical texts. This is an excellent resource for students of narratology, biblical studies scholars, or anyone seeking to better understand the narratives of Scripture.
Reading the Bible with Horror
Reading the Bible with Horror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading the Bible with Horror write by Brandon R. Grafius. This book was released on 2019-10-25. Reading the Bible with Horror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Reading the Bible with Horror, Brandon R. Grafius takes the reader on a whirlwind tour through the dark corners of the Hebrew Bible. Along the way, he stops to place the monstrous Leviathan in conversation with contemporary monster theory, uses Derrida to help explore the ghosts that haunt the biblical landscape, and reads the House of David as a haunted house. Conversations arise between unexpected sources, such as the Pentateuch legal texts dealing with female sexuality and Carrie. Throughout the book, Grafius asks how the Hebrew Bible can be both sacred text and tome of fright, and he explores the numerous ways in which the worlds of religion and horror share uncomfortable spaces.
Holy Horror
Holy Horror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Holy Horror write by Steve A. Wiggins. This book was released on 2018-12-03. Holy Horror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What, exactly, makes us afraid? Is it monsters, gore, the unknown? Perhaps it's a biblical sense of malice, lurking unnoticed in the corners of horror films. Holy Writ attempts to ward off aliens, ghosts, witches, psychopaths and demons, yet it often becomes a source of evil itself. Looking first at Psycho (1960) and continuing through 2017, this book analyzes the starring and supporting roles of the Good Book in horror films, monster movies and thrillers to discover why it incites such fear. In a culture with high biblical awareness and low biblical literacy, horrific portrayals can greatly influence an audience's canonical beliefs.
