Re-writing Jesus : Christ in 20th century fiction and film / Graham Holderness.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holderness, Graham, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--In literature.

Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ--In motion pictures.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At the heart of Christian theology lies a paradox unintelligible to other religions and to secular humanism: that in the person of Jesus, God became man, and suffered on the cross to effect humanity''s salvation. In his dual nature as mortal and divinity, and unlike the impassable God of other monotheisms, Christ thus became accessible to artistic representation. Hence the figure of Jesus has haunted and compelled the imagination of artists and writers for 2,000 years. This was never more so than in the 20th Century, in a supposedly secular age, when the Jesus of popular fiction and film becam

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Also by; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; 1 'Half-god, half-man': Nikos Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation and Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; 2 Human and sacred: Anthony Burgess's Man of Nazareth and Franco Zefirelli's Jesus of Nazareth; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; 3 Science and religion: Jim Crace's Quarantine; I; II; III; IV; V; 4 Cross and altar: Mel Gibson's The Passionof the Christ; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII

5 God or man? Mark Dornford-May's Son of ManI; Ecce Homo: A life of Christ; Preface; Annunciation; Visitation; Nativity; Presentation; Baptism; Temptation; Agony; Solitude; Passion; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; Resurrection; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 12, 2014).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781472573339

1472573331

9781472573346

147257334X

OCLC:

1546971085