The big sleep: Strategic ambiguity in Judges 4-5 and in classic film noir
| dc.contributor.author | Christianson, Eric | * |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-12-11T09:38:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-12-11T09:38:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-01-01 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches, 15(4), 2007, pp. 519-548 | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0927-2569 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1568-5152 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1163/156851507X230296 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10034/255214 | |
| dc.description | This article is not available through ChesterRep. | en_GB |
| dc.description.abstract | This article discusses similaries between film noir and the book of Judges such as anxiety over constructs of masculinity and normality, interest in ritualized violence, fetishization of women, existential deliberation over character, resignation to the fate of the individual (and by extension the nation), withering acknowledgment of the façade of material progress — all expressed with indeterminate narrative modes that frustrate attempts at making meaning. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This article was submitted to the RAE2008 for the University of Chester - Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies. | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Brill | en_GB |
| dc.relation.url | http://www.brill.com/biblical-interpretation-0 | en_GB |
| dc.rights | Archived with thanks to Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches | en_GB |
| dc.subject | Judges (Old Testament) | en_GB |
| dc.subject | film noir | en_GB |
| dc.subject | Jael | en_GB |
| dc.subject | ambiguity | en_GB |
| dc.title | The big sleep: Strategic ambiguity in Judges 4-5 and in classic film noir | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| dc.contributor.department | University College Chester | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.journal | Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches | en_GB |
| html.description.abstract | This article discusses similaries between film noir and the book of Judges such as anxiety over constructs of masculinity and normality, interest in ritualized violence, fetishization of women, existential deliberation over character, resignation to the fate of the individual (and by extension the nation), withering acknowledgment of the façade of material progress — all expressed with indeterminate narrative modes that frustrate attempts at making meaning. |