Cosmic Prison Break : From Gnostic Movies to Conspiracist Cosmology

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Cosmic Prison Break : From Gnostic Movies to Conspiracist Cosmology

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The article thematically and structurally analyses a group of films usually designated as &quot;gnostic films&quot;. 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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Cosmic Prison Break : From Gnostic Movies to Conspiracist Cosmology

Popis výsledku anglicky

The article thematically and structurally analyses a group of films usually designated as &quot;gnostic films&quot;. 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.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60304 - Religious studies

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Central European Journal for Contemporary Religion

ISSN

2570-4893

e-ISSN

2570-4893

Svazek periodika

2021

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1-2

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

31

Strana od-do

67-97

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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