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Richard Walsh, Jeffrey L. Staley - Jesus, the Gospels, and Cinematic Imagination, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Jesus, the Gospels, and Cinematic Imagination

Introducing Jesus Movies, Christ Films, and the Messiah in Motion

Av Richard Walsh, Jeffrey L. Staley

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Jesus films arose with cinema itself. Richard Walsh and Jeffrey L. Staley introduce students to these films with a general overview of the Jesus film tradition and with specific analyses of 22 of its most influential exemplars, stretching from La vie du Christ (1906) to Mary Magdalene (2018). The introduction to each film includes discussion of plot, characters, visuals, appeal to authority, and cultural location as well as consideration of the director’s (and/or other filmmakers’) achievements and style. Several film chapters end with reflections on problematic issues bedeviling the tradition, such as cultural imperialism and patriarchy. To assist teachers and researchers, each chapter includes a listing of DVD chapters and the approximate “time” (for both DVDs and streaming platforms) at which key film moments occur. The book also includes a Gospels Harmony cataloging the time at which key gospel incidents appear in these films. Extensive endnotes point readers to other important work on the tradition and specific films. While the authors strive to set the Jesus film tradition within cinema and its interpretation, the DVD/streaming listing and the Gospels Harmony facilitate the comparison of these films to gospel interpretation and the Jesus tradition.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-09-09
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 620 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 400
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9780567693846
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Richard Walsh is Womack Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Co-Director of the Honors Program at Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA, and is the author of Reading the Gospels in the Dark and editor of the T&T Clark Handbook of Jesus and Film. Jeffrey L. Staley is the author of numerous essays on Jesus and film, and co-founder of the SBL Bible and Film Program Unit. He taught a variety of theology and film courses for many years in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Seattle University, USA, and is now retired.

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With this revision of their excellent 2007 handbook to Jesus on DVD, Richard Walsh and Jeffrey Staley have added an indispensable reference work to the groaning shelf of books on movies about Jesus. Not only have they added several films – old and new – but they have extensively revised the entire book, addressed the move from DVD to streaming platforms, and added a new introduction that makes sense of the diverse films they treat without homogenizing them. A must-read for both seasoned Jesus-movie-watchers and those who are newcomers to this corpus of films, this book will also work well as a textbook for college and adult-education courses on the Jesus movies.

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