Close encounters between Bible and film : an interdisciplinary engagement / edited by Laura Copier and Caroline Vander Stichele.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Copier, Laura, editor.

Vander Stichele, Caroline, editor.

Series:

Semeia studies ; no. 87.

Semeia studies ; number 87

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--In motion pictures.

Bible.

Motion pictures--Religious aspects.

Motion pictures.

Bible films--History and criticism.

Bible films.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta : SBL Press, [2016]

Summary:

"This volume showcases the divergent approaches from film studies and cultural studies that can be used in the visual analysis of biblical and religious themes, narratives, and characters in cinema. It is the first volume that specifically addresses issues of methodology, theory and analysis in the study between bible and film. As such, this collection is of interest to scholars in Film Studies and Theology/Religion/Biblical Studies, who are invested in doing interdisciplinary research in the expanding field of religion and film"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Film theory and biblical studies / George Aichele

Part 1. Film technique as interpretive lens. The obtrusive glimpse: Alfred Hitchcock and the naked young man (Mark 14:51-52) / Larry J. Kreitzer

On the harmony of the (asocial) gospel: Intolerance's crosscut stories / Richard Walsh

Reading biblical stories with cinematic eyes: a methodological approach from the perspective of transmedial narratology / Reinhold Zwick

Part 2. Close encounters between texts and films. "Behold, I'll be back": Terminator, the Book of Revelation, and the power of the past / Michelle Fletcher

"David's anger was greatly kindled": melodrama, the silent cinema, and the Books of Samuel / David Shepherd

Death and disaster: 2012 meets Noah / Laura Copier and Caroline Vander Stichele

Religion as environmental ethics: Darren Aronofsky's Noah / Tarja Laine

Part 3. Interdisciplinary conversations. Controversial Mary: religious motifs and conflicting receptions of Godard's Je vous salue, Marie / Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati

A world of feeling: the affect of Lars von Trier and/as biblical apocalyptic / Robert Paul Seesengood

Martin Scorsese's Aviator as theological complement to his Last temptation of Christ / Jeffrey L. Staley

Lusting after Lester's Lolita: perpetuating and resisting the male gaze in American beauty / Matthew S. Rindge

Objects and the "extended self": the construction of identity in Moonrise Kingdom and the tabernacle narratives / Abigail Pelham

The odds are ever in the empire's favor: postcolonial subject positioning in The hunger games / Jeremy Punt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Close encounters between Bible and film

ISBN:

9781628371581

1628371587

9780884141976

0884141977

OCLC:

953441866

Publisher Number:

40026697571