The Silents of Jesus in the Cinema (1897-1927)

Herausgeber: Shepherd, David

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Produktbeschreibung

While Jesus has attracted the sporadic interest of film-makers since the epics of the Sixties, it is often forgotten that between the advent of motion pictures in the 1890s and the close of the "silent" era at the end of the 1920s, some of the longest, most expensive and most watched films on both sides of the Atlantic were focused on the Life and Passion of the Christ. Drawing upon rarely seen archival footage and the work of both the era's most important directors (e.g. Alice Guy, Ferdinand Zecca, Sidney Olcott, D.W. Griffith, Carl Dreyer, and C.B. DeMille) and others who have been all but forgotten, this collection of essays offers a representative survey of the Silents of Jesus, illustrating the ways in which the earliest films and those which followed were influenced by a multiplicity of factors. Written by leading scholars in biblical and early film studies this collection explores the ways in which the Silents of Jesus were shaped not only by the performing and visual arts of the nineteenth century and the technological challenges and opportunities of a new medium and industry, but also by the artistic, theological and ideological predilections of studios and directors, and the expectations of audiences as the genre evolved. Taken together, the essays collected here offer a seminal treatment of the genesis and early evolution of the cinematic Jesus.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9780415741699
• ISBN-10: 0415741696
• Artikelnr.: 40624152

Autorenporträt

David J. Shepherd is Lecturer in the School of Religions, Peace Studies and Theology at Trinity College Dublin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction David J. Shepherd 1. The Passion of the Christ: a form, a
genre, a discourse André Gaudreault 2. La Vie et Passion de Jésus Christ
(Pathé-Frères, 1902-1905): Tableau Variation in the Early Cinema Valentine
Robert and Alain Boillat 3. La naissance, vie et passion du Christ
(Gaumont, 1906): The Gospel According to Alice Guy David J. Shepherd 4. La
Vie et Passion de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ (Pathé-Frères, 1907): The
Preservation and Transformation of Zecca's Passion Dwight H. Friesen 5.
Sidney Olcott's From the Manger to the Cross (Kalem, 1912): Out of Egypt
and Palestine W. Barnes Tatum 6. The Star of Bethlehem (Thanhouser, 1912):
The Sacred Story from King Herod to the Crip Terry Lindvall 7. The Shadow
of Nazareth (Venus Features/Warner Features, 1913): The Hermeneutics of an
Unauthorized Adaptation Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch 8. La Vie et Passion de
Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ (Pathé-Frères 1913/24): Pathé's Inclination to
Tell and Maître's Instinct to Show Jo-Ann Brant 9. The Birth of a Nation
(D.W. Griffith, 1915) and Intolerance (Triangle/Wark 1916): Griffith's
Talismanic Jesus Richard Walsh 10. Christus (CINES, 1916): Italy's First
Religious "Kolossal" by Antamoro and Salvatori Giuseppe Pucci 11. Der
Galiläer (Express-Film, 1921) and I.N.R.I. (Neumann-Film, 1923): The
Silence of Jesus in the Early German Cinema Reinhold Zwick 12. Leaves from
Satan's Book (Nordisk, 1921) and Dreyer's Script Jesus of Nazareth (1950):
The Jewishness of Jesus Caroline Vander Stichele 13. The King of King's
(DeMille Pictures, 1927): The Body and the Word on Film Vivienne Westbrook
Final Reflections David J. Shepherd