Title: Face to face with angels : images in medieval art and in film /
Authors: Gorgievski, Sandra.
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Angels in motion pictures.; Angels in art; Art, Medieval
Abstract: "This book is the first comparative study of sacred medieval images of angels and their cinematic treatment, including both the medieval and modern imaginations. The text traces the functions of angels and their reworking in film, then takes particular note of new icons like the female angel and others who become models for our connection with transcendence"--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Introduction : from sacred images of angels to new icons? -- Angels serving the creator : views of heaven in a "post-ideological" world? -- From the medieval cosmic hierarchy to frightful mechanization -- Fighting angels : from archangel Michael and celestial militia to modern fear of the apocalypse -- Music-making angels : from the music of the spheres to show business -- Angelic functions : mediation between the divine and the mundane. Jacob's ladder -- Staging the Bible : archangel Gabriel of the Annunciation -- Consolation, compassion and comfort : the guardian angel in comedies -- The female angel. Female stereotypes of domestic bliss -- Mother figures -- The angel of death as femme fatale -- The dishonored virgin or virtue rewarded -- Otherness : from absolute otherness to human. The self as other/mapping the other's territory -- Crossing over to the human world -- Angelic allusions in some science fiction films -- Metaphors of incommunicability -- Conclusion.