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Knockin' on heaven's door [electronic resource] : the Bible and popular culture / Roland Boer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Biblical limitsPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (x, 220 p.)ISBN:
  • 0203170865 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780203170861 (electronic bk.)
  • 0415194105 (hbk)
  • 9780415194105 (hbk)
  • 0415194113 (pbk.)
  • 9780415194112 (pbk.)
  • 0203012380 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
  • 9780203012383 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
Other title:
  • Knocking on heaven's door
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Knockin' on heaven's door.DDC classification:
  • 220.6 21
LOC classification:
  • BS1171.2 .B64 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction: In debt to the Censor; 1 Queer heroes; 2 Cows with guns: Sadistic hegemony, Hitchcock and biblical dismemberment; 3 Night sprinkle(s): Pornography and the Song of Songs; Stolen water is sweeter, stolen bread tastes better: On representing sex workers; 5 Ezekiel's axl, or, anarchism and ecstasy; 6 Pawing through garbage: On the dialectics of dystopia in Lamentations and the Strugatsky brothers; 7 Graves of craving: Fast food, or, manna and McDonald's; Postscript: The exploding elephant; Notes; Bibliography; Index of biblical references.
Summary: Knockin' On Heaven's Door offers a critically sophisticated and truly interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship between biblical studies and contemporary culture.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-200) and index.

Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction: In debt to the Censor; 1 Queer heroes; 2 Cows with guns: Sadistic hegemony, Hitchcock and biblical dismemberment; 3 Night sprinkle(s): Pornography and the Song of Songs; Stolen water is sweeter, stolen bread tastes better: On representing sex workers; 5 Ezekiel's axl, or, anarchism and ecstasy; 6 Pawing through garbage: On the dialectics of dystopia in Lamentations and the Strugatsky brothers; 7 Graves of craving: Fast food, or, manna and McDonald's; Postscript: The exploding elephant; Notes; Bibliography; Index of biblical references.

Knockin' On Heaven's Door offers a critically sophisticated and truly interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship between biblical studies and contemporary culture.

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