TRACING THE OTHER IN HOUSEHOLD SAINTS
In this paper I explore the religious and cultural implications of signifying woman as ‘other’ in Household Saints. Written and directed by Nancy Savoca, this film is about women in an Italian-American neighbourhood of the Bronx from the late '50s through the '70s. Household Saints reflect...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1998
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Literature and theology
Year: 1998, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 82-92 |
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| Summary: | In this paper I explore the religious and cultural implications of signifying woman as ‘other’ in Household Saints. Written and directed by Nancy Savoca, this film is about women in an Italian-American neighbourhood of the Bronx from the late '50s through the '70s. Household Saints reflects the conflicted attitudes toward woman who are represented as objects of worship and desire as well as sites of violence and aggression. Female and male characters are encoded with recognizable characteristic that reflect cultural assumptions about ‘good’ and ‘evil’. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/12.1.82 |