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Reel Kabbalah

Jewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema
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Reel Kabbalah: Jewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema​ studies the ways in which fictional film in the first decade of the twenty-first century represents the esoteric Jewish speculative traditions known as Kabbalah and Hasidism. It examines the textual and conceptual traditions behind five important cinematic representations -- Pi (1998), Ushpizin (2004), Bee Season (2005), The Secrets (2007), and A Serious Man (2009) -- and it considers how film both stands in continuity with those traditions and modifies them in the New Age vein of what is known as neo-Kabbalah and neo-Hasidism. Brian Ogren transform our understanding of reception history by focusing on how cinema has altered perceptions of Jewish mysticism. In showing how the Jewish speculative traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism have been able to affect mass consumed cinematic portrayals of ultimate Truth, this book sheds light on the New Age, pop-cultural dialectic of the particular within the universal and of the universal within the particular.

Author Biography:

BRIAN OGREN is the Anna Smith Fine Professor of Judaic Studies and the chair of the Religion Department at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is the author of Kabbalah and the Founding of America, The Beginning of the World in Renaissance Jewish Thought, and Renaissance and Rebirth.
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September 13th, 2024
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184
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9781978840256
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38480273

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