Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Religions
Angaben zur Quelle:
12,9 (2021) pp 10
Keywords:
Allen, Woody, Criticism and interpretation
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Broadway Danny Rose (Motion picture)
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Bible Influence
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Jewish motion picture producers and directors
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Exodus, The
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Passover
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Thanksgiving Day
Abstract:
It is the thesis of this article that a secular form of the biblical Exodus pattern is used by Woody Allen in his Broadway Danny Rose. In the history of the Bible, and its interpretation, the Exodus pattern is again and again used as a model for inspiration: from oppression to deliverance. It was an important source of both argument and symbolism during the American Revolution. It was used by the Boer nationalists fighting the British Empire and it comes to life in the hand of liberation theology in South America. The use of this pattern and its use during the seder meal is to be taken loosely here: Exodus is not a theory, but a story, a “Big Story” that became part of the cultural consciousness of the West and quite a few other parts of the world. Although the Exodus story is in the first place an account of deliverance or liberation in a religious context and framework, in Broadway Danny Rose it is used as a moral device about how to survive in the modern wilderness. View Full-Text
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