Peripheral Visionaries
Corruptive Mysticism and the Problem of Miracle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12423598 |
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| Authors | Patrick D Flores (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 335-345 |
| Publication date | 2011-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | positions asia critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1067-9847 • E-ISSN: 1527-8271 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10679847-1331742 |
| OpenAlex | W2168992689 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The article explores the ways in which the discourse and affect of miracle is performed in Philippine cinema, with the view of understanding how it exploits and inevitably corrupts mysticism and spiritual belief. Central to this project is the woman miracle worker, the visionary who is made to bear the exceptional gift of otherworldliness as well as the stigma of being bared as false and fictitious. This double coding becomes a productive site of critique of the miracle in the various unveilings of history in film and social life
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Miracle · Mysticism · Psychoanalysis · Theology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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