Alien sex the body and desire in cinema and theology.pdf

ALIEN SEX

Challenges in Contemporary Theology

Series Editors: Gareth Jones and Lewis Ayres

Canterbury Christ Church University College, UK and

Emory University, USA

Challenges in Contemporary Theology is a series aimed at producing

clear orientations in, and research on, areas of ‘challenge’ in contem-

porary theology. These carefully co-ordinated books engage traditional

theological concerns with mainstreams in modern thought and cul-

ture that challenge those concerns. The ‘challenges’ implied are to be

understood in two senses: those presented by society to contemporary

theology, and those posed by theology to society.

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Eugene F. Rogers, Jr

On Christian Theology

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The Promised End

Paul S. Fiddes

Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy, and Gender

Sarah Coakley

Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology

Gerard Loughlin

A Theology of Engagement

Ian S. Markham

ALIEN SEX

The Body and Desire in Cinema

and Theology

Gerard Loughlin

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First published 2004 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Loughlin, Gerard.

Alien sex : the body and desire in cinema and theology / Gerard Loughlin.

p. cm. — (Challenges in contemporary theology)

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

ISBN 0–631–21179–9 — ISBN 0–631–21180–2 (pbk.)

1. Body, Human—Religious aspects—Christianity. 2. Sex—Religious aspects—Christianity.

3. Motion pictures—Religious aspects—Christianity. I. Title. II. Series.

BT741.3.L68 2004

233

.5—dc22

2003015211

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The author and publishers gratefully acknowledge the following for permission to reproduce copyright

material:

W.H. Auden, ‘Musee des Beaux Arts’ from Collected Poems , edited by Edward Mendelson, (London:

of Random House and Faber and Faber.

Derek Jarman, Derek Jarman’s Garden , with photographs by Howard Sooley, (London: Thames and Hudson

1995). Used by permission of Thames and Hudson.

The publishers apologize for any errors or omissions in the above list and would be grateful to be notiﬁed

of any corrections that should be incorporated in the next edition or reprint of this book.

Cover illustration: Barbarella ( Jane Fonda) and Pygar ( John Phillip Law) in Barbarella ( directed by Roger

Vadim; France/Italy: Paramount Pictures, 1968).

Barbarella’s adventures on the planet Lythion are structured around a series of amorous encounters

involving different forms of alien sex; from popping pills with Dildano (David Hemmings) to wearing

out Duran Duran’s (Milo O’Shea) ‘excessive machine’, and spurning the advances of the Black Queen

(Anita Pallenberg). Only the blinded angel, Pygar, whose sight is touch, offers her true clarity. For, as

he says, ‘an angel doesn’t make love, an angel is love.’ Strangely, this theological thought is already that

of St Augustine, who taught that the end of all our desiring is to dwell with the angels in the heavenly

city, in the love of God, which will no longer have to be made to appear, for it will be apparent in all

things, perpetually manifest.

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