In the subsequent section, the chapter focuses on a cultural retelling of this biblical story-Nicolas Roeg’s 1996 movie, Samson and Delilah-and considers the ways that this contemporary cultural text likewise employs these same tropes, imbued with the cultural flavors of the time, to offer a portrayal of Delilah as a postfeminist femme fatale whose erotic allure proved too hot to handle for “new man” Samson. Specifically, it suggests that interpreters’ reading strategies for the Judges 16 text are constantly negotiated and shaped by readers’ own heteronormative assumptions and discourses of gender and sexuality. The chapter first offers an overview of some common interpretive traditions surrounding this biblical story, which appear to draw upon those familiar tropes of feminine treachery and masculine vulnerability. This chapter considers popular understandings of Samson and Delilah’s relationship in Judges 16, arguing that readers’ interpretations of this relationship are often guided by the discourses, beliefs, and ideologies dominant within their own sociocultural context.
The story was first made into a feature film in Austria in 1922. Improvising on the Canon through Jazz Music and Biblical Interpretation in American Popular Culture The destruction of the temple of the Philistines is described in Chapter 16, Verses 2530.Television and the Bible in American Popular Culture.The Afterlife in the Bible and Popular Culture.
Scenes from the End of the World in American Popular Culture.Biblical Prophecy and Popular Fantasy and Science Fiction.The Biblical Theme of Covenant and American Popular Culture from Colonial Times to Comic Books.Jesus and Postsoul Satire on the Small Screen.Queen Esther Imagined as a Disney Princess.David and Bathsheba in Children’s Bibles and Adult Novels.Nicolas Roeg’s Retelling of Judges 16 in Samson and Delilah (1996).The Impact of Adam and Eve on Popular Culture’s Understandings of Women’s Roles and Evolution.
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