Screen Jesus
eBook - ePub

Screen Jesus

Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film

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eBook - ePub

Screen Jesus

Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film

About this book

Since the dawn of film in the 1890s, religious themes and biblical subjects have been a staple of cinema. One of the earliest focuses of screen presentations was the Bible, especially the New Testament and the Gospels. In Screen Jesus: Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film, Peter Malone takes a close look at films in which Jesus is depicted. From silent renditions of The Passion Play to 21st-century blockbusters like The Passion of the Christ, Malone examines how the history of Jesus films reflects the changes in artistic styles and experiments in cinematic forms for more than a century. In addition to providing a historical overview of the Jesus films, this book also reveals the changes in piety and in theological understandings of the humanity and divinity of Jesus over the decades.

While most of the Jesus films come from the United States and the west, an increasing number of Jesus films come from other cultures, which are also included in this study. Fans and scholars interested in the history of religious cinema will find this an interesting read, as will students and teachers in cinema and religious studies, church pastors, parish groups, and youth ministry.

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Information

Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9780810883901
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Introducing the Theme
  4. Chapter 1: The Jesus-Figure
  5. Chapter 2: Biblical Portraits of Jesus
  6. Chapter 3: The Jesus Films: The Early Twentieth Century
  7. Chapter 4: The Jesus Films: The 1920s and Cecil B. DeMille
  8. Chapter 5: The Jesus Films: The 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s—Jesus’ Absence from the Mainstream and Evangelical Jesus-Figures
  9. Chapter 6: The Jesus Films: The 1950s and 1960s—Mainstream Images
  10. Chapter 7: The Jesus Films: The 1960s
  11. Chapter 8: The Jesus Films: The 1970s
  12. Chapter 9: The Jesus Films: The 1980s
  13. Chapter 10: The Jesus Films: Cinema Freedom and Images of Jesus
  14. Chapter 11: The Jesus Films: The 1990s
  15. Chapter 12: The Jesus Films: The Twenty-first Century
  16. Chapter 13: The Jesus Films: Jesus in Our World Today
  17. Chapter 14: The Jesus Films: Verbal Jesus-Figures
  18. Chapter 15: Interest in Jesus and Film Beyond Christianity
  19. Chapter 16: The Reverent/Serious
  20. Chapter 17: The Bizarre
  21. Chapter 18: After The Passion of the Christ
  22. Afterword: More Than a Hundred Years of Jesus Films
  23. Appendix 1: The Major Jesus Films
  24. Appendix 2: Jesus and the Crucifix
  25. Appendix 3: The Issue of Films on Jesus and Sexuality
  26. Appendix 4: Interview with the Director of Jesus, the Spirit of God
  27. Selected Background Reading
  28. About the Author