The Bible in motion. Part 1 : a handbook of the Bible and its reception in film / edited by Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burnette-Bletsch, Rhonda, editor.

Series:

Handbooks of the Bible and Its Reception (HBR)

Handbooks of the Bible and Its Reception, 2330-6270 ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--In motion pictures.

Bible.

Bible films--History and criticism.

Bible films.

Motion pictures--Religious aspects.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (940 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This two-part volume contains a comprehensive collection of original studies by well-known scholars focusing on the Bible’s wide-ranging reception in world cinema. It is organized into sections examining the rich cinematic afterlives of selected characters from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament; considering issues of biblical reception across a wide array of film genres, ranging from noir to anime; featuring directors, from Lee Chang-dong to the Coen brothers, whose body of work reveals an enduring fascination with biblical texts and motifs; and offering topical essays on cinema’s treatment of selected biblical themes (e.g., lament, apocalyptic), particular interpretive lenses (e.g., feminist interpretation, queer theory), and windows into biblical reception in a variety of world cinemas (e.g., Indian, Israeli, and Third Cinema). This handbook is intended for scholars of the Bible, religion, and film as well as for a wider general audience.

Contents:

The Bible in Motion

Front matter

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Abbreviations

General Introduction: The Bible

I. Biblical Characters and Stories (Hebrew Bible)

1. In the Beginning: Adam and Eve in Film

2. Noah and the Flood: A Cinematic Deluge

3. It’s All in the Family: The Patriarchs of Genesis in Film

4. The Cinematic Moses

5. Samson and Delilah in Film

6. There Might Be Giants: King David on the Big (and Small) Screen

7. Esther in Film

II. Film Genres and Styles

8. Scripture on Silent Film

9. Film Noir and the Bible

10. The Bible Epic

11. Western Text(s): The Bible and the Movies of the Wild, Wild West

12. Mysteries of the Bible (Documentary) Revealed: The Bible in Popular Non‐Fiction and Documentary Film

13. From Skepticism to Piety: The Bible and Horror Films

14. “Moses’ DVD Collection”: The Bible and Science Fiction Film

15. The Word Made Gag: Biblical Reception in Film Comedy

16. Drawing (on) the Text: Biblical Reception in Animated Films

17. Anime and the Bible

III. Biblical Themes and Genres

18. God at the Movies

19. Satan in Cinema

20. Creation and Origins in Film

21. The Book of Job in the Movies: On Cinema’s Exploration of Theodicy and the Hiddenness of God

22. Lament in Film and Film as Lament

23. What Lies Beyond? Biblical Images of Death and Afterlife in Film

24. This Is the End: Apocalyptic Moments in Cinema

IV. Biblical Characters and Stories (New Testament)

25. Jesus and the Gospels at the Movies

26. Women in the Cinematic Gospels

27. Judas as Portrayed in Film

28. Jews and Judaism in New Testament Films

29. Paul and the Early Church in Film

30. Mythic Relevance of Revelation in Film

V. Cinemas and Auteurs

31. David Wark Griffith: Filming the Bible as the U.S. Story

32 Alice Guy Blaché and Gene Gauntier: Bringing New Perspectives to Film

33. Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates: Emergent History and a Gospel of Middle‐Class Liberation

34. Cecil B. DeMille: Hollywood’s Lay Preacher

35. Reframing Jesus: Dreyer’s Lifelong Passion

36. Luis Buñuel: Atheist by the Grace of God

37. Robert Bresson: Biblical Resonance from a Christian Atheist

38. Roberto Rossellini: From Spiritual Searcher to History’s Documentarian

39. Federico Fellini: From Catholicism to the Collective Unconscious

40. John Huston: The Atheistic Noah

41. Stanley Kubrick: Midrashic Movie Maker

42. In the Wake of the Bible: Krzysztof Kieślowski and the Residual Divine in Contemporary Life

43. Peter Weir: Man of Mystery, Mysticism, and the Mundane

44. Cheick Oumar Sissoko: West African Activist and Storyteller

45. Lee Chang-Dong: Exploring the Hidden Christ

46. Mark Dornford-May: Transposing the Classic

47. Serious Men: Scripture in the Coen Brothers Films

48. Liberative Visions: Biblical Reception in Third Cinema

49. The Reception of Biblical Films in India: Observations and a Case Study

50. “A Ram Butts His Broad Horns Again and Again against the Wall of the House”: The Binding Myth in Israeli Film

VI. Voices from the Margins

51. Judaism and Antisemitism in Bible Movies

52. Ethnicity and Biblical Reception in Eve and the Fire Horse

53. A Slave Narrative for the “Post-Racial” Obama Age

54. The Temptation of Noah: The Debate about Patriarchal Violence in Darren Aronofsky’s Noah

55. Gay Male Villains in Biblical Epic Films

56. Imperialism in New Testament Films

Film Index

Scripture Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters, filmographies and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501500169

1501500163

9781614513261

1614513260

OCLC:

959149599