The Spirit is Willing, but the Flesh is Weak
Embodied Transcendence and Sacred Spectatorship inThe Robe(1953)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4317859 |
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| Authors | Thomas J West (North-West State Technical University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 347-368 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Material Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1743-2200 • E-ISSN: 1751-8342 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17432200.2019.1607058 |
| OpenAlex | W2948722229 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
In this paper, I argue that the reintroduction of widescreen technology with the release of Fox’s The Robe in 1953 promised spectators the ability to encounter—through powerful, embodied immersion—the moment when historical time reached its fulfillment at Christ’s death. However, the fact that the material world continues to move inevitably forward makes it impossible to fully experience the escape from the material world that he represents. As such, the widescreen epic forces a confrontation with the very awareness of living in the stream of historical temporality from which it supposedly offers an escape, providing a deeply conflicted experience of time and history
Aesthetics · Art · Embodied cognition · EPIC · Epistemology · Flesh · Literature · Temporality · Cinema and Media Studies · Digital Games and Media · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Highly cited | No |
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