Reel Kabbalah

Jewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Brian Ogren

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Reel Kabbalah: Jewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema studies the ways in which fictional film in the first decade of the twenty-first century represents the esoteric Jewish speculative traditions known as Kabbalah and Hasidism. It examines the textual and conceptual traditions behind five important cinematic representations -- Pi (1998), Ushpizin (2004), Bee Season (2005), The Secrets (2007), and A Serious Man (2009) -- and it considers how film both stands in continuity with those traditions and modifies them in the New Age vein of what is known as neo-Kabbalah and neo-Hasidism. Brian Ogren transforms our understanding of reception history by focusing on how cinema has altered perceptions of Jewish mysticism. In showing how the Jewish speculative traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism have been able to affect mass-consumed cinematic portrayals of ultimate Truth, this book sheds light on the New Age, pop-cultural dialectic of the particular within the universal and of the universal within the particular.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-09-13
Mått156 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor188
FörlagRutgers University Press
ISBN9781978840256

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Film inom Kultur
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"Brian Ogren’s Reel Kabbalah is an outstanding and pioneering study that breaks disciplinary boundaries and extends the horizons of Kabbalah research. Reel Kabbalah offers a highly sophisticated analysis of cinematic representations and interpretations of Jewish mysticism and contributes significantly to the understanding of modern Kabbalah and its impact on contemporary arts and culture." - Boaz Huss (author of Mystifying Kabbalah: Academic Scholarship, National Theology, and New Age Spirituality) "Reel Kabbalah is a significant contribution to the field of religion and film, which has so far largely overlooked the intersections of cinema and Jewish mysticism. Through his thoughtful reading of five case studies, Brian Ogren reveals to us why Kabbalah matters in film analysis and specifically how, by dint of cinema's global reach, neo-Kabbalistic ideas make an impact well beyond the confines of the Jewish world." - Dan Chyutin (author of Hidden Light: Judaism and Mystical Experience in Israeli Cinema)