The Banality of Ghosts. Searching for Humanness with Joshua Oppenheimer in THE ACT OF KILLING The Banality of Ghosts

• প্রধান লেখক: Lucien van Liere (auth)
• বিন্যাস: বৈদ্যুতিক গ্রন্থের অধ্যায়
• ভাষা: ইংরেজি
• প্রকাশিত: Schüren Verlag 2018
• মালা: Journal for Religion, Film and Media
• অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In The Act of Killing, (Joshua Oppenheimer, ID, DK 2012), Joshua Oppenheimer searches for humanness by assessing the rituals, routines and grammar of former perpetrators who played a role during the 1965/6 genocide in Medan, Indonesia. This article puts The Act of Killing in the context of Oppenheim...