T&T Clark companion to the Bible and film. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Richard Walsh.
• Editors: Walsh, Richard G
• Contents: Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Introduction:Biblical Film Studies; Biblical film?; Why Bible and film?; Whither biblical film scholarship?; The essays; Notes; Works cited; Part 1: Contexts; Chapter 1: Apocalypse Noir: The Book of Revelation and Genre; Apocalypse awakes; Apocalyptic awareness; Ascribing apocalypse; Summary; Noir knowing: Film noir and neo-noir; That noir feeling; Blatant blinds and scripted sax; Seething sex and violence; Refracted femme fatales; Summary; Affective apocalyptic; Seeing composite; Rampant reveal and conceal Fixing perceptions: The destruction of the worldA different apocalypse; Conclusion; Notes; Works cited; Chapter 2: Counting Errors or Understanding Filmic History: Historiophoty and Bible Films; Filmmakers as historians; Film genres of the biblical film; Conclusion; Notes; Works cited; Chapter 3: In the Creator's Image: Divine and Mundane Self-Reproduction in Science-Fiction Films; Nonhuman creator(s), human creatures; Human creators, mechanical creatures; Human creators, human creatures; Mirror images?; Notes; Works cited Chapter 4: Murderous Archaeologists, Doubting Priests, and Mesopotamian Demons: The Bible in Horror and Adventure CinemaNotes; Works cited; Chapter 5: Comedic Films and the Bible; Comedic movies derived from the Bible; Comedic movies that reference the Bible; Conclusion; Works cited; Chapter 6: The First Seventy Years of Jesus Films: A Canonical, Source-Critical History; The "pre-canonical" era of Jesus movies (1906-13); The "canonical" era of Jesus movies (1927-65); Beyond the biopic canon; Conclusion; Notes; Works cited; DVDs referenced; Chapter 7: Justice, Empire, and Nature: Justice and deliverance: Park Chan-wook's vengeance trilogy (South Korea)Empire and covenant: Three historical epics (China); Nature as new creation: The divine vision of Hayao Miyazaki (Japan); Conclusion; Notes; Works cited; Chapter 8: Biographical Approaches to Jesus Films: Prospects for Bible and Film; Biographies of films/making the case; The Social Lives of Things/biographical precedents; Toward a social life of a Jesus film/a case study; Conclusion; Notes; Works cited; Chapter 9: Frames and Borders in Deuteronomy and Films on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Frame-brakes and framing realityFrames and borders; Conclusion: Territory and tradition; Note; Works cited; Chapter 10: "Blessed Are the Peacemakers": The Deployment of Jesus in American and German Cinema During and After the First World War; Intermission: America 1918: Love your enemies (but not too much); Germany 1923: Those who live by the sword; Notes; Works cited; Chapter 11: German Jesus Movies; Actualizations: Pilatus und andere and Jesus Cries; The Second Coming: Das Geheimnis, Jesus liebt mich, and Shorts; Blasphemous interventions: Das Gespenst and Jesus-Der Film; Conclusion; Notes
• Publisher Details: London New York : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.43/6822; Film theory & criticism; Bible films -- History and criticism; Bible films; Motion pictures; PERFORMING ARTS / Reference; Religion -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- General; Biblical studies & exegesis; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567666222; 0567666220
• Related ISBNs: 9780567666208; 0567666204; 9780567666215
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Includes filmography.; Note: Print version record.
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