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{en} Jesus at the Movies (1997) is a book by W. Barnes Tatum.

Abstract

"Since the earliest days of the movies more than a century ago, moviemakers have been intrigued by "the greatest story ever told." They have tried, with varying degrees of success, to capture the life of Jesus on film ... In Jesus at the Movies Barnes Tatum has created a fascinating and exhaustively-researched viewer's guide to the movies about Jesus. Tatum guides the reader film-by-film from Sidney Olcott's silent classic "From the Manger to the Cross" through Denis Arcand's award-winning "Jesus of Montreal" to the future of Jesus movies. With his experience as author, biblical scholar, and teacher on religion and film, he presents this unique look at Jesus films in all dimensions: as cinematic art, as literature, as biblical history and as theology."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Santa Rosa, CA: Polebridge Press, 1997 / revised ed. 2004.

Table of contents

The cinematic Jesus : promise and problem -- The cinematic Jesus : Jesus-story films -- Sidney Olcott : From the manger to the cross -- D. W. Griffith : Intolerance -- Cecil B. DeMille : The king of kings -- William Wyler : Ben Hur (and others) -- Samuel Bronston : King of kings -- George Stevens : The greatest story ever told -- Pier Paolo Pasolini : The gospel according to St. Matthew -- Norman Jewison : Jesus Christ Superstar ; David Greene : Godspell -- Franco Zeffirelli : Jesus of Nazareth -- Monty Python's Life of Brian -- John Heyman : Jesus -- Martin Scorsese : The last temptation of Christ -- Denys Arcand : Jesus of Montreal -- Mel Gibson : The passion of the Christ -- The cinematic Jesus : retrospect and prospect -- Appendix A: Checklist of Jesus-story films -- Appendix B: Jesus-story films and Christ-figure films.

External links

• [ Google Books]