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With contributions from major scholars such as Mikel J. Koven and Martin Stollery, and a preface by Adele Reinhartz, this collection looks at the new wave of Biblical adaptations from The Passion of the Christ (2004) onwards, taking a range of theoretical positions.
List of contents
Introduction - Wickham Clayton
Part I: Producing biblical film and television
1 Battles over the biblical epic: Hollywood, Christians and the American Culture Wars - Karen Patricia Heath
2 Depicting 'biblical' narratives: a test case on Noah - Peter Phillips
3 Special effects and CGI in the biblical epic film - Andrew B. R. Elliott
4 The phenomenon of biblical telenovelas in Brazil and Latin America - Clarice Greco, Mariana Marques de Lima and Tissiana Nogueira Pereira
Part II: Modern narratives and contexts in adapting the Bible
5 Mythic cinema and the contemporary biblical epic - Mikel J. Koven
6 The Nativity reborn: genre and the birth and childhood of Jesus - Matthew Page
7 Convince me: conversion narratives in the modern biblical epic - Chris Davies
Part III: Critical readings and receptions
8 Controversy and the 'Culture War': exploring tensions between the secular and the sacred in
Noah, the 'least biblical biblical movie ever' - Becky Bartlett
9 'Can anything good come out of Southern California?'* (*hyperlink to John 1:46): the Christian critical reception of elliptical Jesus narratives - Wickham Clayton
10 Examining the digital religion paradigm: a mixed-method analysis of online community perception of epic biblical movies - Gregory P. Perreault and Thomas S. Mueller
Part IV: Culture and representation
11 The devil and the Culture Wars: demonising controversy in
The Last Temptation of Christ and
The Passion of the Christ - Karra Shimabukuro
12 Ben-Her(?): soft stardom, melodrama and the critique of epic masculinity in
Ben-Hur (2016) - Thomas J. West III
13 The biblical-trial film: social contexts in
L'Inchiesta and
Risen - Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar
14 'Squint against the grandeur': iconoclasm and film genre in
The Passion of the Christ and
Hail, Caesar! - Martin Stollery
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About the author
Wickham Clayton is Lecturer in Film Production at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
Summary
With contributions from major scholars such as Mikel J. Koven and Martin Stollery, and a preface by Adele Reinhartz, this collection looks at the new wave of Biblical adaptations from The Passion of the Christ (2004) onwards, taking a range of theoretical positions. -- .
