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{en} Peter Malone, Screen Jesus: Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2012).

Abstract

"Since the dawn of film in the 1890s, religious themes and biblical subjects have been a staple of cinema. One of the earliest focuses of screen presentations was the Bible, especially the New Testament and the Gospels. In Screen Jesus: Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film, Peter Malone takes a close look at films in which Jesus is depicted. From silent renditions of The Passion Play to 21st-century blockbusters like The Passion of the Christ, Malone examines how the history of Jesus films reflects the changes in artistic styles and experiments in cinematic forms for more than a century. In addition to providing a historical overview of the Jesus films, this book also reveals the changes in piety and in theological understandings of the humanity and divinity of Jesus over the decades ... While most of the Jesus films come from the United States and the west, an increasing number of Jesus films come from other cultures, which are also included in this study. Fans and scholars interested in the history of religious cinema will find this an interesting read, as will students and teachers in cinema and religious studies, church pastors, parish groups, and youth ministry."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Oxford [England] and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Contents

Foreword / by Maggie Roux -- Introducing the theme -- The Jesus figure -- Biblical portraits of Jesus -- The Jesus films: the early 20th century -- The Jesus films: the 1920s and Cecil B. De Mille -- The Jesus films: Jesus' absence from the mainstream: the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s' evangelical Jesus-figures -- The Jesus films: mainstream images -- The Jesus films: the 1960s -- The Jesus films: the 1970s -- The Jesus films: the 1980s -- The Jesus films: cinema freedom and images of Jesus -- The Jesus films: the 1990s -- The Jesus films: the 21st century -- The Jesus films: Jesus in our world today -- The Jesus films: verbal Jesus-figures -- Interest in Jesus and film beyond Christianity -- The reverent/serious and the bizarre.

External links

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