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Punishment and Crime: The Reverse Order of Causality in The White Ribbon

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dc.creatorvan der Pol, Gerwin
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-16T17:27:59Z
dc.date.available2023-05-16T17:27:59Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis article explores, within a sociological-psychological framework, the problematic moral emotions of spectators evoked by watching the film Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke, DE/AT/FR/IT, 2009). As always in Michael Haneke’s films the spectator’s moral system is severely put to the test, upon watching the unimaginable actions people are capable of. At first sight the shown atrocities that remain unpunished seem to cause the spectator’s distress. The real horror, however, lies in the fact the evil occurs within the boundaries of a religious society that hails itself as good and just. The word of God as a moral guide becomes ineffective in this film and in Dogville (Lars von Trier, NL/DK/UK/FR/FI/SE/DE/ IT/NO 2003), a film used as comparison. Both films exemplify that in the end, the most difficult conclusion to process by the spectator is that the worst crime is feeling morally superior and teaching others how to behave. In The White Ribbon this teaching is projected as the punishment that causes the crimes.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.4:2018.1.4
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19469
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/97
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20658
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
dc.subjectPunishmenten
dc.subjectCrimeen
dc.subjectReverse Orderen
dc.subjectCausalityen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.workTHE WHITE RIBBON
dc.titlePunishment and Crime: The Reverse Order of Causality in The White Ribbonen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2023-05-16T19:42:01
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/97
local.source.epage61
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleTrauma, Memory and Religion
local.source.spage47
local.source.volume4
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/7676913-6
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q158023

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