In this movie the theme of War, Politics, Violence, Cannibalism is reflected. Analyze the film at least 10 themes listed below.
Please use at least 10-15 analytical categories from the following list to relate them with the primary source (the movie ‘Werkmeister Harmonies’ (Béla Tarr, 2000).
Use these words in order to elaborate their appearance in the movie:
• “A–lêtheia” (“Truth” as cultural memory)
Allegory / allegorical tradition
Analogy
“Anthropology” (’emic’ conception of human nature)
Anti–modernism
Anti–ritualism
‘Anti–somatism’
‘Anti–Structure’
Apocalypse (literary genre)
‘Apocalypticism’
“Archetypes” (as “universal” patterns)
“Aryan” vs. “Semitic”
‘Ascent’
Asceticism
“Authenticity”
Authority
“Belief” vs. “Practice”
“Belief” (i.e, “faith”) vs. “Reason”
“Body” vs. “Soul” (or “Mind” / “Spirit”)
Body
Canon formation
“Cargo cult”
‘Center’ vs. ‘Periphery’
‘Charismatic’ (noun)
“Civilized” vs. “Uncivilized”
Cognitive metaphor
Commodification
Communication between ‘realms’
Community
Comparison / comparative method
Communication with the “Other World”
Contact between cultures
Continuity of tradition
“Conversion”
‘Contagion’
Creolization / creole religion
Crypto–religion
“Cult” vs. “Religion”
‘Cultural osmosis’
Decontextualization
Demonization
Devolutionary paradigm (vs. evolutionary)
Diachronic / synchronic
Diaspora
Discourse
Divination / oracles
“Dualism”
Ecstatic voyage
‘Ecstasy’ (altered state of consciousness)
Embodiment
“Emic” vs. “Etic”
Encoding
Epistemology
Epoché
Eroticism
Esoterism
“Essence”
Essentialism
Etiology (explanation)
Evolutionary paradigm (vs. devolutionary)
Exchange (gift, sacrifice, offering)
Exegesis
Exegetical tradition
Experience
Extraordinary individual
Functionalism
‘Gnosticism’ (as historical phenomenon or as theological paradigm)
‘Hagiography’
‘Harmonization’ (exegesis)
“Heresy”
‘Hermeneutic of suspicion’ vs. ‘hermeneutic of charity’
Hermeneutics
Hierarchy
“High” vs. “Low”
Historical contextualization
“Holy Man”
Homoerotic paradigm
‘Horizontal’ vs. ‘vertical’ localization
“Human” vs. “non–human” (animal)
“Human” vs. “non–human” (divine)
Hybridity
Identity
Ideology
‘Inner ritual’
Interpretative approach
“Insider” vs. “Outsider”
Institutionalization
“Irrationality” vs. “Rationality”
Irreducibility
“Libertine” vs. “encratite”
‘Liminality’
Lineage
‘Locative’ vs. ‘Utopian’
Mapping
“Martyr”
Master / disciple relationship
Meaning
Mediation
Memory
Messianism
‘Metaphor is never ‘just a metaphor’’
Millenarianism
“Monotheism”
Motifeme
“Mundane” vs. “non–mundane”
‘Mysticism’
Mythical justification
Myth–Ritual complex
Nostalgia for ‘Golden Age’
‘Oral text’
“Orthodoxy” vs. “heterodoxy”
“Other”
“Other World”
‘Penitential’ asceticism
Performance / Self–Performance
‘Perennialist’ vs. ‘Constructivist’
Phenomenology
Platonism
“Pollution”
Polythetic or ‘fuzzy’ category
‘Possession’
Problematic dichotomy
‘Proof-text’
Proselytization
Proximate ‘Other’
Purity laws
“Rationality” vs. “Irrationality”
‘Relic’
Religious specialist
‘Revelation’
‘Rites of passage’
Ritual reiteration of mythical event
Sacred text
“Sacred” vs. “Profane”
‘Sacrifice’
‘Scapegoat’
“Self”
‘Self–Construction / re–construction’
‘Self–Cultivation’
Self–Definition
Sexual ritual
‘Shamanism’
Spatial metaphor
Spiritual authority
Spiritual autobiography
Spiritual ‘genealogy’
‘Spiritual geography’
Spiritual ‘influence’
“Spiritual” vs. “Material”
‘Spiritualization’
Structure / structuralism
Subtle physiology
Subversion
‘Sympathetic magic’
Sui generis
Supernatural powers / ‘miracles’
“Superstition”
‘Symbol’ / ‘Symbolism’
“Symbolic” vs. “Efficacious”
“Syncretism”
Taxonomy
Time (linear model vs. cyclical model, temporality vs. eternity)
Traditionalism
‘Trance / possession’
“Transcend”
‘Transcendentalization’
Transgression
‘Transmission’
Trifunctional hypothesis (Dumézil)
Universalism
“Us” vs. “Them” (or “Not–Us”)
‘Validation’
Value hierarchy
‘Vision’ (hallucination / dream)
