The Bible onscreen in the new millennium : new heart and new spirit /
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...
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Battles over the biblical epic: Hollywood, Christians and the American culture wars / Karen Patricia Heath
- Depicting 'biblical' narratives: a test case on Noah / Peter Phillips
- Special effects and CGI in the biblical epic film / Andrew B.R. Elliott
- The phenomenon of biblical telenovelas in Brazil and Latin America / Clarice Greco, Mariana Marques de Lima and Tissiana Nogueira Pereira
- Mythic cinema and the contemporary biblical epic / Mikel J. Koven
- The nativity reborn: genre and the birth and childhood of Jesus / Matthew Page
- Convince me: conversion narratives in the modern biblical epic / Chris Davies
- Controversy and the 'culture war': exploring tensions between the secular and the sacred in Noah, the 'least biblical biblical movie ever' / Becky Bartlett
- 'Can anything good come out of Southern California?'* (*hyperlink to John 1:46): the Christian critical reception of elliptical Jesus narratives / Wickham Clayton
- Examining the digital religion paradigm: a mixed-method analysis of online community perception of epic biblical movies / Gregory P. Perreault and Thomas S. Mueller
- The devil and the culture wars: demonising controversy in The last temptation of Christ and The passion of the Christ / Karra Shimabukuro
- Ben-Her(?): soft stardom, melodrama and the critique of epic masculinity in Ben-Hur (2016) / Thomas J. West III
- The biblical-trial film: social contexts in L'inchiesta and Risen / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar
- 'Squint against the grandeur': iconoclasm and film genre in The passion of the Christ and Hail, Caesar! / Martin Stollery.