Screen Jesus : Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film.

By:

Malone, Peter

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lanham : Scarecrow Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (528 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780810883901
0810883902

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Screen Jesus : Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film.DDC classification:

791.4368232

LOC classification:

PN1995.9 .J4 2012eb

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Contents:

Foreword; Introducing the Theme; Chapter 1: The Jesus-Figure; Chapter 2: Biblical Portraits of Jesus; Chapter 3: The Jesus Films: The Early Twentieth Century; Chapter 4: The Jesus Films: The 1920s and Cecil B. DeMille; Chapter 5: The Jesus Films: The 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s-Jesus' Absence from the Mainstream and Evangelical Jesus-Figures; Chapter 6: The Jesus Films: The 1950s and 1960s-Mainstream Images; Chapter 7: The Jesus Films: The 1960s; Chapter 8: The Jesus Films: The 1970s; Chapter 9: The Jesus Films: The 1980s; Chapter 10: The Jesus Films: Cinema Freedom and Images of Jesus.

Chapter 11: The Jesus Films: The 1990sChapter 12: The Jesus Films: The Twenty-first Century; Chapter 13: The Jesus Films: Jesus in Our World Today; Chapter 14: The Jesus Films: Verbal Jesus-Figures; Chapter 15: Interest in Jesus and Film Beyond Christianity; Chapter 16: The Reverent/Serious; Chapter 17: The Bizarre; Chapter 18: After The Passion of the Christ; Afterword: More Than a Hundred Years of Jesus Films; Appendix 1: The Major Jesus Films; Appendix 2: Jesus and the Crucifix; Appendix 3: The Issue of Films on Jesus and Sexuality.

Appendix 4: Interview with the Director of Jesus, the Spirit of GodSelected Background Reading; About the Author.

Summary: 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.

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Appendix 4: Interview with the Director of Jesus, the Spirit of GodSelected Background Reading; About the Author.

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.