The Banality of Ghosts. Searching for Humanness with Joshua Oppenheimer in THE ACT OF KILLING
In The Act of Killing, (Joshua Oppenheimer, ID, DK 2012), Joshua Oppenheimer searches for humanness by assessing the rituals, routines and grammar of former perpetrators who played a role during the 1965/6 genocide in Medan, Indonesia. This article puts The Act of Killing in the context of Oppenheim...
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| description | In The Act of Killing, (Joshua Oppenheimer, ID, DK 2012), Joshua Oppenheimer searches for humanness by assessing the rituals, routines and grammar of former perpetrators who played a role during the 1965/6 genocide in Medan, Indonesia. This article puts The Act of Killing in the context of Oppenheimer’s writings on film and violence and explores how this film negotiates humanness by working with a missionary paradigm of expressive guilt that not only serves the director, but also a critical audience with a happy ending. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-632132022-02-11T15:07:30Z The Banality of Ghosts. Searching for Humanness with Joshua Oppenheimer in THE ACT OF KILLING Lucien van Liere In The Act of Killing, (Joshua Oppenheimer, ID, DK 2012), Joshua Oppenheimer searches for humanness by assessing the rituals, routines and grammar of former perpetrators who played a role during the 1965/6 genocide in Medan, Indonesia. This article puts The Act of Killing in the context of Oppenheimer’s writings on film and violence and explores how this film negotiates humanness by working with a missionary paradigm of expressive guilt that not only serves the director, but also a critical audience with a happy ending. 2021-02-12T10:12:30Z 2021-02-12T10:12:30Z 2020-09-03 10:50:10 2018 chapter 47017 2414-0201 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63213 eng Journal for Religion, Film and Media image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://www.schueren-verlag.de/programm/titel/593-trauma-memory-and-religion-jrfm-1-2018.html https://jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/94 Schüren Verlag Trauma, Memory and Religion 10.25364/05.4:2018.1.1 10.25364/05.4:2018.1.1 5b80c228-3393-4862-a8e9-6c35a63484f1 07b59e28-6d9e-4b85-9550-462028ad76f9 15-34 open access |
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