Cosmic Prison Break : From Gnostic Movies to Conspiracist Cosmology
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F23%3A10476289" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/23:10476289 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=aDbh_pL_-j" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=aDbh_pL_-j</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/25704893.2023.4" target="_blank" >10.14712/25704893.2023.4</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Cosmic Prison Break : From Gnostic Movies to Conspiracist Cosmology
Original language description
The article thematically and structurally analyses a group of films usually designated as "gnostic films". These films share a common ideology as they postulate the existence of two worlds - one illusory and the other true. The hero must escape the false world and reach the true one. As the majority of gnostic films appeared at the turn of the millennium, the article also suggests what contributed to the emergence of these films. As the cosmology of the films bears a close similarity to the cosmology of conspiracy theories, the emergence of the films is shown to be a part of the sociocultural development of the conspiracist mindset entering the mainstream. In the 1990s, conspiracism was out of the closet and gained popularity, but it was not yet perceived as an imminent societal threat and therefore was not a taboo for Hollywood filmmakers. The 1990s were also the decade of a unipolar world order where the absence of an inimical Other engendered anxiety about the system itself, which is reflected in the analysed films.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60304 - Religious studies
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Central European Journal for Contemporary Religion
ISSN
2570-4893
e-ISSN
2570-4893
Volume of the periodical
2021
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1-2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
31
Pages from-to
67-97
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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