The Bible on silent film : spectacle, story and scripture in the early cinema /
"Between the advent of motion pictures in the 1890s and the close of the 'silent' era at the end of the 1920s, many of the longest, most expensive and most watched films on both sides of the Atlantic drew upon biblical traditions. David J. Shepherd traces the evolution of the biblical...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. 'Like one of the prophets of old': passions and cameos; 2. 'See this great sight': spectacle and miracle; 3. 'That my wonders may be multiplied': Blackton and elaboration; 4. 'How are the mighty fallen': Feuillade and tragedy; 5. 'All the country wept aloud': Andre;ani and melodrama; 6. 'The top of it reached to heaven'
- Griffith, analogy and scale; 7. 'She came close to his bed'
- vamps and other leading ladies; 8. 'But Pharaoh hardened his heart': Exodus and Egypt; 9. 'The end of these wonders?': The triumph of spectacle; Afterword.