Wie de wereld achter The Lion King wil begrijpen, moet onder andere terug naar de Egyptische mythen rond Osiris, de god van de dood en de onderwereld, en zijn koningin, de godin Isis. Na een kwade list van Seth, de voorvader van Scar, kan alleen Horus, de zoon van Osiris (toepasselijk genoeg met de stem van Darth Vader) een nieuw tijdperk (lett. Aeon of Horus) doen aanbreken. Om alles te regeren wat het Licht aanraakt, moet hij eigenhandig met de opstandige Seth afrekenen.
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973, released on DVD by Studiocanal)
In the course of March and April 2019, I wrote seven essays on topics ranging from a supposedly blasphemous song to the relationship between subjectivity and anthropological fieldwork. Today I publish the first essay, on Robin Hardy’s 1973 cult classic The Wicker Man.
In the first semester of 2018/19 I wrote an extensive paper on the academic study of religion and film. A condensed outline of my argument was presented at a student conference of the UvA and the UU in January 2019. I publish the full paper right here.
Ik kon het niet laten om na de aflevering van afgelopen maandag iets met de visuals en symboliek van Game of Thrones te doen. Spoilers ahead dus en veel beeldmateriaal, en voor wie de aflevering al zag: iets met een paard…
I recently wrote an academic book review for one of my research master courses. I took a publication of the Canadian Religious Studies scholar Douglas E. Cowan, entitled America’s Dark Theologian: the Religious Imagination of Stephen King.
What happens when you’re suddenly asked to write an exegesis on a particular set of biblical verses? I did so for a RMA course on Religious Texts and Interpretative Practices, and you’ll be able to find the result in this post.
In the autumn of 2018, I attented the yearly conference of the NGG (Nederlands Genootschap voor Godsdienstwetenschap). The overarching theme was ‘Interpreting Rituals’. Keynote lectures and paper sessions shed a light on a broad variety of topics, challenging me and the other research master students on the spot to search for challenging perspectives. The paper that I am sharing serves as a reflection on the conference and one of its pivotal themes. I wrote it in the aftermath of the event, but the case study that I used will be the starting point for another paper on David Bowie and performativity, which I will hopefully produce this spring.
Beroemd is het moment waarop Anna’s zoon Johan (Jorgen Lindstrom) een tank ziet passeren in het vreemde land met haar vreemde taal. Komen we ergens in Tystnaden dichterbij de wil om te begrijpen?
Klik hier voor [onder meer] een stukje over mijn favoriete film van Ingmar Bergman, Tystnaden (1963). Cine-collega’s vertellen in hetzelfde overkoepelende stuk over hun favorieten. Dit alles naar aanleiding van de Nederlandse re-release van het prachtige Fanny & Alexander, dat sinds gisteren tijdelijk in de filmhuizen draait.
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