RT Article
T1 (Carrying the Fire on) No Road for Old Horses: Cormac McCarthy's Untold Biblical Stories
JF Journal of religion and popular culture
VO 24
IS 3
SP 339
OP 351
A1 Walsh, Richard G. 1955-
LA English
PB University of Saskatchewan
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/169218718X
AB : Three "major" movies have been based on the novels of Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. In a landscape of loss, these fictions realize strange, new biblical stories about those who are neither chosen nor special and thus those who do not find the promise, are the prey of demons, and live after a secular apocalypse. These fictions are strange, new versions of Job in which no whirlwind answers, Job's adversary roams unbound, and Job's self-curse has become a luxury. Amidst an implacable fate, the fictions' call to "carry the fire" differs from biblical faith in election and providence and from popular assumptions about US exceptionalism.
K1 Cormac McCarthy
K1 Bible and Film
K1 Book of Job
K1 All the Pretty Horses
K1 No Country for Old Men
K1 The Road
K1 The Sunset Limited
DO 10.3138/jrpc.24.3.339