The Bible onscreen in the new millennium (eBook, ePUB)

New heart and new spirit
Redaktion: Clayton, Wickham

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The remarkable commercial success of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ in 2004 came as a surprise to the Hollywood establishment, particularly considering the film's failure to find production funding through a major studio. Since then the Biblical epic, long thought dead in terms of mainstream marketability, has become a viable product. This collection examines the new wave of the genre, which includes such varied examples as Darren Aronofsky's Noah (2014) and Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014), along with the telenovelas of Latin America. Such texts follow previous traditions while appearing distinct both stylistically and thematically from the Biblical epic in its prime, making academic consideration timely and relevant. Featuring contributions from such scholars as Mikel J. Koven, Andrew B. R. Elliott and Martin Stollery, and a preface from Adele Reinhartz, the book will be of interest to students and scholars of film, television and religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526136596
• Artikelnr.: 58521929

Autorenporträt

Wickham Clayton is Lecturer in Film Production at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Wickham Clayton Part I: Producing biblical film and
television 1 Battles over the biblical epic: Hollywood, Christians and the
American Culture Wars - Karen Patricia Heath 2 Depicting 'biblical'
narratives: a test case on Noah - Peter Phillips 3 Special effects and CGI
in the biblical epic film - Andrew B. R. Elliott 4 The phenomenon of
biblical telenovelas in Brazil and Latin America - Clarice Greco, Mariana
Marques de Lima and Tissiana Nogueira Pereira Part II: Modern narratives
and contexts in adapting the Bible 5 Mythic cinema and the contemporary
biblical epic - Mikel J. Koven 6 The Nativity reborn: genre and the birth
and childhood of Jesus - Matthew Page 7 Convince me: conversion narratives
in the modern biblical epic - Chris Davies Part III: Critical readings and
receptions 8 Controversy and the 'Culture War': exploring tensions between
the secular and the sacred in Noah, the 'least biblical biblical movie
ever' - Becky Bartlett 9 'Can anything good come out of Southern
California?'* (*hyperlink to John 1:46): the Christian critical reception
of elliptical Jesus narratives - Wickham Clayton 10 Examining the digital
religion paradigm: a mixed-method analysis of online community perception
of epic biblical movies - Gregory P. Perreault and Thomas S. Mueller Part
IV: Culture and representation 11 The devil and the Culture Wars:
demonising controversy in The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of
the Christ - Karra Shimabukuro 12 Ben-Her(?): soft stardom, melodrama and
the critique of epic masculinity in Ben-Hur (2016) - Thomas J. West III 13
The biblical-trial film: social contexts in L'Inchiesta and Risen -
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar 14 'Squint against the
grandeur': iconoclasm and film genre in The Passion of the Christ and
Hail, Caesar! - Martin Stollery Filmography Index