Lisa Maurice

Screening Divinity (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Lisa Maurice examines screen portrayals of gods - covering Greco-Roman mythology, the Judeo-Christian God and Jesus - from the beginning of cinema to the present day. Focussing on the golden age of the Hollywood epic in the fifties and the twenty-first century second wave of big screen productions, she provides an over-arching picture that allows historical trends and developments to be demonstrated and contrasted. Engaging with recent scholarship on film, particularly film and theology as well as classical reception, she considers the presentation of these gods through examination of their physical and moral characteristics, as well as their interaction with the human world, against the background of the social contexts of each production.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474425759
• Artikelnr.: 72419736

Autorenporträt

Lisa Maurice is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She has published on ancient education, Plautine comedy and her research now primarily focuses on classical reception. She is the author of The Teacher in Ancient Rome (Lexington, 2013) and of many articles, and is the editor of three volumes in the Brill Metaforms series on the reception of the ancient world in popular culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations
Chapter One: Screening Divinity: Introduction
Chapter Two: Anthropomorphism
Chapter Three: Physiology and the Physical Appearance of the Divine (1):
The Patriarchal King Figure and the Devil
Chapter Four: Physiology and the Physical Appearance of the Divine (2):
Screening the Olympian Males and Jesus
Chapter Five: Gendering the Divine (1): Greek Goddesses on Screen
Chapter Six: Gendering the Divine (2): Holy Female Figures in the
Judeo-Christian Film
Chapter Seven: Human-Divine Interactions on Screen
Chapter Eight: Blurring the Boundaries: Apotheoses and Deicides
Postscript: Some Concluding Observations
Filmography; Bibliography; Index