Table of Contents
List of Figures
Introduction, Richard Walsh, Methodist University, USA
Part 1: Contexts
1. Apocalypse Noir: The Book of Revelation and Genre – Michelle Fletcher, King’s College London, UK
2. Counting Errors or Understanding Filmic History: Historiophoty and Bible Films – Anne Moore, University of Calgary, Canada
3. In the Creator’s Image: Divine and Mundane Self-Reproduction in Science Fiction Films – Christopher Heard, Pepperdine University, USA
4. Murderous Archaeologists, Doubting Priests, and Mesopotamian Demons: The Bible in Horror and Adventure Cinema – Kevin M. McGeough, University of Lethbridge, Canada
5. Comedic Films and the Bible – George Aichele, Adrian College, USA
6. The First Seventy Years of Jesus Films: A Canonical, Source-Critical History – Jeffrey L. Staley, Seattle University, USA
7. Justice, Empire, and Nature: Deliverance, Covenant, and New Creation in East Asian Cinema – Sze-kar Wan, SMU Perkins School of Theology, USA
8. Biographical Approaches to Jesus Films: Prospects for Bible and Film, Dwight H. Friesen – Independent Scholar
9. Frames and Borders in Deuteronomy and Films on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict – Brian Britt, Virginia Tech University, USA
10. “Blessed are the Peacemakers,” The Deployment of Jesus in American and German Cinema During and After WWI – David J. Shepherd, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
11. German Jesus Movies – Reinhold Zwick, Wilhems University, Munster, Germany
12. Once Upon a Time in the West…The Fate of Religion, the Bible, and the Italian Western – James G. Crossley, St. Mary’s University Twickenham, UK
Part 2: Theories
13. A Return to Form: Bible, Film Theory, and Film Analysis – Laura Copier, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
14. Seven Stages of Affect: Religion, Affect, and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ – Robert Paul Seesengood, Albright College, USA
15. Rock Me Sexy Jesus?: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Films Rhiannon Graybill, Rhodes College, USA
16. “Sooner Murder an Infant in Its Cradle”: Wisdom and Childlessness in The Sweet Hereafter – Jay Twomey, University of Cincinnati, USA
17. Son of Man: A Case Study in Translation, Postcolonialism, and Biblical Film – Hugh Pyper, University of Sheffield, UK
18. American Slavery, Cinematic Violence, and the (Sometimes) Good Book – Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch, Eastern University, USA
19. Deleuze on Film, and the Bible – George Aichele, Adrian College, USA
20. There’s a New Messiah in Town: The Messianic in the Western – Robert Paul Seesengood, Albright College, USA and Richard Walsh, Methodist University, USA
21. Lars von Trier’s Dogville as a Cinematic Parable -Matthew S. Rindge, Gonzaga University, USA
Part 3: Texts
22. Can We Try that Again? The Fate of the Biblical Canon on Film – Matthew Page, Bible and Film Blogger
23. Reversing the Hermeneutical Flow: Noah’s Flood in Recent Hollywood Films – Adele Reinhartz, University of Ottawa, Canada
24. A Genre(s) Approach to The Prince of Egypt – P. Jennifer Rohrer-Walsh, Methodist University, USA
25. “What Child is This?” Reflections on the Child Deity and Generic Lineage of Exodus: Gods and Kings – Richard Walsh, Methodist University, USA
26. “What Shall We do with the Tainted Maiden?” Film Treatments of the Book of Esther – Deborah W. Rooke, University of Oxford, UK
27. Desert Tales: Mark and Last Days in the Desert – Tina Pippin, Agnes Scott College, USA
28. A Revolutionary Passion Film: Giovanni Columbu’s Su Re (The King) – Lloyd Baugh, Gregorian University, Italy
29. A Deadly Daughter? Salome’s Cinematic Afterlife – Caroline Vander Stichele, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
30. Belief is in the Eye of the Spectator: Beholding the Other Actor’s Reaction – Jon Solomon, University of Illinois, USA
31. Ben-Hur (2016): Jesus Finds a Voice – Larry J. Kreitzer, University of Oxford, UK
Filmography
List of Contributors
Modern Author Index
Scripture Index
Film Index
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