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About this book
How Hysterical reads scenes from the films Light It Up, Three Kings, Remember the Titans, Paris is Burning, Boys Don't Cry, and Magnolia alongside biblical texts from Numbers, Exodus, Isaiah, Micah, Ezekiel and Revelation. An innovation in studies on Bible and film, How Hysterical is less centred on direct citation of the Bible in film than on analyses of hypostasized biblical influence in culture. Here, through accessible engagement with feminist, queer, post-colonial and ideological critical theories, Runions discusses the processes by which biblical and filmic texts can both bolster and disrupt identifications with the norms that drive politics and culture.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Series Editorâs Preface
- Permissions
- Acknowledgments
- List of Film Stills
- Introduction
- 1 Hysterical Phalli: Numbers 16, Gustafsen Lake, Light it Up, and Police Brutality
- 2 Hollywoodâs Hegel Reads the Bible: Remember the Titans, Race Relations, and the Prison Industrial Complex
- 3 Framing the Golden Fetish: Three Kings and the Biblical Exodus Tradition
- 4 Zion is Burning: Genderfuck and Hybridity in Micah and Paris Is Burning
- 5 Why Girls Cry: Gender Melancholia and Sexual Violence in Ezekiel 16 and Boys Donât Cry
- 6 Falling Frogs and Family Traumas: Mediating Apocalypse in Magnoliaâwith Adrienne Gibb
- Notes
- Works Consulted
- Index