Journal of Religion & Film: Foucault, Discipline and the Self: Exploring Mary's Relationship with God in The Nativity Story by Amarnath Amarasingam

Foucault, Discipline and the Self: Exploring Mary’s Relationship with God in The Nativity Story

by Amarnath Amarasingam
Doctoral Candidate, Laurier-Waterloo PhD in Religious Studies

Notes

1. Catherine Hardwicke, (Director). The Nativity Story. [Motion Picture]. Italy and Morocco: New Line Cinema, 2006.

2. Gary Gutting. Foucault: A Very Short Introduction. ( New York: Oxford University Press, 2005): 33

3. Gutting, 2005: 33.

4. Michel Foucault. Discipline and Punish. Alan Sheridan (Trans). (New York: Vintage Press, 1977): 170.

5. Steven Best and Douglas Kellner. Postmodern Theory . (New York: The Guilford Press, 1991): 49.

6. Best and Kellner, 1991: 54.

7. Foucault 1977: 136.

8. Best and Kellner, 1991: 60.

9. Michel Foucault. "Technologies of the Self" in Luther Martin, Huck Gutman, Patrick Hutton, eds. Technologies of the Self: A Seminar With Michel Foucault. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988): 18.

10. Foucault 1977: 187.

11. Foucault 1977: 201.

12. Foucault 1977: 202-203.

13. Foucault 1988: 18.