Pamela Grace

The Religious Film

Christianity and the Hagiopic

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Lush, vaguely liturgical music floods the theater. A sonorous offscreen male voice slowly articulates the words, "And it was written..." or "In the year.... " On the screen, clouds mysteriously separate, and a semi-transparent figure appears in the sky. . . This is the religious film.

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From The Gospel According to Matthew to Jesus Christ Superstar, from The Passion of Joan of Arc to The Last Temptation of Christ and Jesus of Montreal , The Religious Film captures the glory, gore, and centrality of this important genre.

A short, accessible introduction to religious film, exploring the genre as spectacle, as musical, and as controversy

Examines the historical, cultural and critical background for religious films from the silent era through to the present day

Introduces the complexities and characteristics of this iconic genre of film, including common sounds and images, and the values that most traditional films of this kind uphold

Produktdetails

• New Approaches to Film Genre
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9781405160261
• ISBN-10: 1405160268
• Artikelnr.: 23586181

Autorenporträt

Pamela Grace teaches at Brooklyn College, CUNY.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: The Religious Film and
the Hagiopic. 2. Historical Overview. 3. Critical Overview. 4. King of
Kings (1961): Spectacle and Anti-Spectacle. 5. The Song of Bernadette
(1943): The Religious Comfort Film. 6. Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) and
Jesus Christ Superstar (2000): The Religious Musical. 7. The Gospel
According to Matthew (1964) and Jesus of Montreal (1989): The Alternative
Hagiopic. 8. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) and The Messenger: The Story
of Joan of Arc (1999): Transcendence and Exploitation. 9. The Last
Temptation of Christ (1988) and The Passion of the Christ (2004): The
Sacrificial Hagiopic. Notes. Bibliography. Index.