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The Banality of Ghosts: Searching for Humanity with Joshua Oppenheimer in The Act of Killing

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dc.creatorvan Liere, Lucien
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-16T17:27:58Z
dc.date.available2023-05-16T17:27:58Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractIn 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.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.4:2018.1.2
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19467
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/94
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20656
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectGhostsen
dc.subjectHumanityen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personJoshua Oppenheimer
dc.subject.workTHE ACT OF KILLING
dc.titleThe Banality of Ghosts: Searching for Humanity with Joshua Oppenheimer in The Act of Killingen
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dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2023-05-16T19:42:01
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/94
local.source.epage34
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleTrauma, Memory and Religion
local.source.spage15
local.source.volume4
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/173153690
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6290103
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7712287

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