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- Title
The Unconventional Postmodern Voice of Religion in André Øvredal's Trollhunter.
- Authors
Hohle, Philip
- Abstract
Has the conventional voice of religion been silenced in postmodern film? The emancipating language of postmodernism has found a home among independent filmmakers, those artists who are less constrained by the blockbuster orthodoxy and profit-centered penitence of the mega-studio. Now their alternate rhetorical voices are frequently heard in the mainstream. In some ways the subject of religion is given new breath, as the taboos and talismans of a previous generation are put aside in favor of a less institutionalized version of the role of religion in life. André Øvredal's Trollhunter is a postmodern take on a pre-modern folktale. The discovery of opposing rhetorical situations in this film creates opportunities to analyze deeper religious meanings in the narrative and the exigency from which it arises and invites a response.
- Subjects
POSTMODERNISM (Literature); INDEPENDENT filmmakers; RELIGIOUS orthodoxy; REPENTANCE; RELIGION
- Publication
Journal of Communication & Religion, 2014, Vol 37, Issue 2, p44
- ISSN
0894-2838
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.5840/jcr201437211