- Title
- "Nostalgia for Eden": Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion, an apocalyptic genesis
- Creator
- Haywood, Loraine
- Relation
- Seachanges: Women Scholars of Religion & Theology Vol. 7, Issue 2016
- Relation
- https://www.wsrt.asn.au/blank-hjufb
- Publisher
- Women Scholars of Religion and Theology (WRST)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Through the science fiction genre, Joseph Kosinski’s film Oblivion is a modern parable for contemporary contexts. The film encourages viewers to leave constructed narratives of patriarchy that constitute notions of oblivion, and seek for origins and truth found in sacred relationships with God, each other and the earth. Oblivion is a theological odyssey set against a backdrop of an apocalyptic future earth which is explored through three main characters in narratives of Eden/paradise. Themes explored in the film encourage an Ecofeminist theological resolution by simulating the defeat of patriarchy and gender symbolism. The film’s ending seems to suggest that whatever separates us from achieving ecological and theological healing is still to be overcome - it is up to us.
- Subject
- Joseph Kosinski; nostalgia for eden; film; religion
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1344661
- Identifier
- uon:29471
- Identifier
- ISSN:1445-0798
- Language
- eng
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