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Hollywood biblical epics : Camp Spectacle and Queer Style from the silent era to the modern day / Richard Lindsay.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.B53 L56 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lindsay, Richard A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible films--History and criticism.
- Bible films.
- Homosexuality and motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxxv, 193 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2015]
- Contents:
- Introduction: "It is as it was"
- Part 1. The scripturalization of the King of Kings and The passion of the Christ
- The camp King of kings and the monstrous passion
- Part 2. The orgies of God: anti-communist gospel, the gospel of the production code, and the gospel of spectacle in postwar biblical films
- "You're not a well woman, honey": effeminate villains in biblical films
- Ben-Hur and the beefcake bible
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-183) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781440837524
- 144083752X
- 1440837538
- 9781440837531
- OCLC:
- 895731356
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