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Divination by "The Ten Commandments"...

Heimlich, Evan Samuel.

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Divination by "The Ten Commandments": Its rhetorics and their genealogies.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Divination by "The Ten Commandments": Its rhetorics and their genealogies./
作者:	Heimlich, Evan Samuel.
面頁冊數:	338 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-07A.
標題:	Religion, Biblical Studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3274814
ISBN:	9780549140757

Divination by "The Ten Commandments": Its rhetorics and their genealogies.
Heimlich, Evan Samuel.

Divination by "The Ten Commandments": Its rhetorics and their genealogies. - 338 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2007.

As American and other modern practices of recirculating hegemony perform, particularly through nodes of nationalism and racism, the resolving of lived, social contradictions, mass cultural texts tend to deploy rites of divination in what I explain as "mantic practices." Herein I investigate the mantic practices of Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 film, The Ten Commandments. After a close reading of these practices in the film, the dissertation proceeds to analyze their genealogies.

ISBN: 9780549140757Subjects--Topical Terms:

1020189
Religion, Biblical Studies.

Divination by "The Ten Commandments": Its rhetorics and their genealogies.
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520 $a The film's mantic practices work on several levels, the most basic of which includes depictions of rites of divination such as astrology or cleromancy (casting lots). Furthermore the film's deployment of certain rhetorics, such as "manifest destiny," function as divination. Overall the film positions its viewers as if performers of rites of divination. In addition to original diagrams, the dissertation features a set of frames captured from a digital video disk of the film. These appear as illustrations in the text and are duplicated in diptychs as a "Slide Show," attached.
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