Journal of Religion and Film
About This Book
Volume 22, Issue 2 An Old Film in a New Light: Lighting as the Key to Johannine Identity in “Ordet” by Richard Goodwin Abstract In his essay on Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Ordet, P. Adams Sitney draws a parallel between the protagonist, Johannes, and John the Evangelist, author of the fourth gospel. He suggests that the delusional Johannes’s sanity returns upon the recovery of his own name, turning on the invocation of his biblical namesake, John the Evangelist. Compelling as Sitney’s is, however, I a
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 1 |
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| Institution | University of Nebraska at Omaha |
| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |