عنوان

"We May be Through with the Past ..."

شماره

LA125433

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

"We May be Through with the Past ..."

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jason M. Silverman

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Recurring themes and traditions within the biblical corpus have attracted much scholarship. This article uses P. T. Anderson's Magnolia (1999) as a test case for the ways traditions may or may not interact, and what that means for 'tradition history.' While the film has many features which strike many viewers as biblical, the author-director denies prior knowledge of these connections. The film is analyzed in terms of structure, Anderson's claimed sources, the American cultural context of the 1990s, and its biblical resonances. After assessing the import of these observations, the tradition history of Magnolia is compared to the tradition history of the exodus in the Hebrew Bible. Within the framework of attention to media contexts, the article concludes by noting the importance of authority, canon, and multiple lines of transmission. In so doing, our understanding of the transmission of traditions is problematized, and a broader, less text-centric paradigm is called for. Recurring themes and traditions within the biblical corpus have attracted much scholarship. This article uses P. T. Anderson's Magnolia (1999) as a test case for the ways traditions may or may not interact, and what that means for 'tradition history.' While the film has many features which strike many viewers as biblical, the author-director denies prior knowledge of these connections. The film is analyzed in terms of structure, Anderson's claimed sources, the American cultural context of the 1990s, and its biblical resonances. After assessing the import of these observations, the tradition history of Magnolia is compared to the tradition history of the exodus in the Hebrew Bible. Within the framework of attention to media contexts, the article concludes by noting the importance of authority, canon, and multiple lines of transmission. In so doing, our understanding of the transmission of traditions is problematized, and a broader, less text-centric paradigm is called for.

تاريخ نشر

2016

توصيف ظاهري

459-490

عنوان

Religion and the Arts

شماره جلد

20/4

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5292

اصطلاح موضوعی

film studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

frogs

اصطلاح موضوعی

intertextuality

اصطلاح موضوعی

Magnolia

اصطلاح موضوعی

methodology

اصطلاح موضوعی

the exodus

اصطلاح موضوعی

tradition history

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jason M. Silverman

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685292-02004003

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y