A Twenty-First-Century Gospel: Jesus at the Vatican in Paolo Sorrentino’s The Young Pope
Paolo Sorrentino called his series The Young Pope “a thriller of the soul.” In this religio-political drama, Sorrentino explores the fortune of the Catholic Church were a young, intransigent, irritable American cardinal elected pope. Building his story line around the life of Christ, with intertextu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2021]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2020, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 204-218 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
The young pope
/ Jesus Christus
/ Incarnation
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture HC New Testament KDB Roman Catholic Church |
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Pope
B Television B Christ figure B Paolo Sorrentino B Gospel B Catholic Church |
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| Summary: | Paolo Sorrentino called his series The Young Pope “a thriller of the soul.” In this religio-political drama, Sorrentino explores the fortune of the Catholic Church were a young, intransigent, irritable American cardinal elected pope. Building his story line around the life of Christ, with intertextual citations to the New Testament and visual allusions to Christian art and Jesus movies, Sorrentino offers a twenty-first-century gospel to remind the viewer that the gospel is not only about tolerance. By presenting his young pope as the returned Christ, and not as a Christ figure, he shows that conservatism is equally present with liberalism in its message. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.2018-0005 |