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Of Elephants and Toothaches
Eva Badowska and Francesca Parmeggiani
2016
This collection is the first to offer a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to Krzysztof Kieślowski’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 Kieślowski as a major international director.
Kieślowski 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 Kieślowski’s cycle as it relentlessly solicits an ethical response that stimulates both inner disquiet and interpersonal dialogue.
Hardcover available from Fordham University Press. Open Access version produced with support from libraries via Knowledge Unlatched.
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Keywords
- Ethics
- Film criticism
- Film theory & criticism
- Film, TV & radio
- Films, cinema
- God
- KUnlatched
- Limousin dialect
- Media & Communications
- Media and Communications
- Moral and ethical aspects
- Motion picture producers and directors
- Politics
- Religion on television
- Social Science / Media Studies
- Ten commandments
- The arts
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticism
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DOI: 10.26530/OAPEN_609947Editions
