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Alien Sex

Alien Sex

Loughlin

Hardcover

Series: Challenges in Contemporary Theology

Religion General Film StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0631211799
ISBN13: 9780631211792
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: Feb 4 2004
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.34
Height: 1.14 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Gerard Loughlin is one of the leading theologians working at the interface between religion and contemporary culture. In this exceptional work, he uses cinema and the films it shows to think about the church and the visions of desire it displays.

  • Discusses various films, including the Alien quartet, Christopher Nolan's Memento, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange, Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth and Derek Jarman's The Garden.
  • Draws on a wide range of authors, both ancient and modern, religious and secular, from Plato to Levinas, from Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar to André Bazin and Leo Bersani.
  • Uses cinema to think about the church as an ecclesiacinema, and films to think about sexual desire as erotic dispossession, as a way into the life of God.
  • Written from a radically orthodox Christian perspective, at once both Catholic and critical.

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