Face to face with angels
Subtitle: images in medieval art and in film
By: Sandra Gorgievski
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780786442201
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : from sacred images of angels to new icons?; title: Angels serving the creator : views of heaven in a "post-ideological" world?; title: From the medieval cosmic hierarchy to frightful mechanization; title: Fighting angels and hyperbolic cohorts : from archangel Michael and celestial militia to modern fear of the apocalypse; title: Music-making angels : from the music of the spheres to show business; title: Angelic functions : mediation between the divine and the mundane. Jacob's ladder; title: Staging the Bible : archangel Gabriel of the Annunciation; title: Consolation, compassion and comfort : the guardian angel in comedies; title: The female angel. Female stereotypes of domestic bliss; title: Mother figures; title: The angel of death as femme fatale; title: The dishonored virgin or virtue rewarded; title: Otherness : from absolute otherness to human forms of otherness. The self as other/mapping the other's territory; title: Crossing over to the human world; title: Angelic allusions in some science fiction films; title: Metaphors of incommunicability; title: Conclusion.