How Hysterical Identification and Resistance in the Bible and Film

by Runions, Erin

• ISBN13: 9780312295738
• ISBN10: 0312295731
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-02
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

How Hysterical reads scenes from the films Light It Up , Remember the Titans , Three Kings , Paris is Burning , Boys Don't Cry , and Magnolia alongside biblical texts from Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Micah, Matthew, and Revelation. An innovation in studies on Bible and film, How Hysterical is less centered on direct citation of the Bible in film than on analyses of hypostasized biblical influence in culture. Here, through accessible engagement with feminist, queer, postcolonial and ideological critical theories, Erin Runions discusses the processes by which biblical and filmic texts can both bolster and disrupt identifications with the norms that drive politics and culture.

Author Biography

Erin Runions is Assistant Professor, Department of Theology, St. Bonaventure University.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	ix
Permissions	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
List of Film Stills	xv
Introduction	1	(14)
Hysterical Phalli: Numbers 16, Gustafsen Lake, Light it Up, and Police Brutality	15	(28)
Hollywood's Hegel Reads the Bible: Remember the Titans, Race Relations, and the Prison Industrial Complex	43	(22)
Framing the Golden Fetish: Three Kings and the Biblical Exodus Tradition	65	(28)
Zion is Burning: Genderfuck and Hybridity in Micah and Paris Is Burning	93	(22)
Why Girls Cry: Gender Melancholia and Sexual Violence in Ezekiel 16 and Boys Don't Cry	115	(20)
Falling Frogs and Family Traumas: Mediating Apocalypse in Magnolia---with Adrienne Gibb	135	(30)
Notes	165	(16)
Works Consulted	181	(22)
Index	203