{"product_id":"the-moses-complex-ute-holl-9783037346235","title":"The Moses Complex: Freud, Schoenberg, Straub\/Huillet","description":"Moses has long been a source of modern fascination. For Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, Moses was a particularly fruitful subject for the study of memory and historiography. He also held great interest for the visual and performing arts. In the 1920s and '30s, the composer Arnold Schoenberg wrote the three-act opera \u003ci\u003eMoses and Aron.\u003c\/i\u003e First performed just a few years before his exile to the United States, it required that its audiences distinguish voices from forceful background noise, just as Moses had to confront the burning bush before he could hear the voice of God. In 1974, filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet created an avant-garde cinematic adaptation of Schoenberg's opera that continued the composer's examination of the established hierarchies of seeing and hearing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Moses Complex, \u003c\/i\u003eUte Holl analyzes these major works in detail and deep historical context, synthesizing the complex models of resistance to explore the relationships among media, migration, and politics. Since Moses descended from Sinai with the tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments, new media and new laws have often emerged simultaneously. Liberation, in particular, has been negotiated through many different cultural media, with psychoanalysis, music, and cinema all describing exodus and exile as a process of force. Offering a dynamic and comprehensive political and cultural theory of migration and violence, \u003ci\u003eThe Moses Complex\u003c\/i\u003e speaks equally well to psychoanalytic, musical, and cinematic thinking as it does to our tendency toward violence in the treatment of migrants today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ute Holl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 303734623X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783037346235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Diaphanes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.80w x 1.10d","brand":"Ute Holl","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49097119957247,"sku":"9783037346235","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-moses-complex-ute-holl-9783037346235","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}