“They Put Themselves in Danger, Girls Like That”: Ezekiel 16 and Promising Young Woman
This article pairs the worst of the biblical marriage metaphor texts, Ezekiel 16, with a feminist film about sexual violence, Promising Young Woman (2020). Strikingly, the God of Ezekiel 16 acts in ways that closely resemble the would-be rapists and “good guys” of Promising Young Woman. Furthermore,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
2024
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Interpretation
Year: 2024, Volume: 78, Issue: 3, Pages: 221-230 |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible and Film
B Rape B Ezekiel 16 B Popular Culture B Marriage Metaphor B Feminist Biblical Criticism B Sexual Violence |
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| Summary: | This article pairs the worst of the biblical marriage metaphor texts, Ezekiel 16, with a feminist film about sexual violence, Promising Young Woman (2020). Strikingly, the God of Ezekiel 16 acts in ways that closely resemble the would-be rapists and “good guys” of Promising Young Woman. Furthermore, the portraits of female revenge in Promising Young Woman and Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) suggest new ways of reading the seemingly monolithic gender violence of text. |
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| ISSN: | 2159-340X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/00209643241244451 |