Hollywood Biblical Epics

Camp Spectacle and Queer Style from the Silent Era to the Modern Day

AvRichard Lindsay

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

746 kr

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This is the only book of its kind to explore biblical epics from an LGBT perspective, studying films from the silent era, to the postwar major studio era, to the present day.In spite of restrictive Hollywood censorship regulations, filmmakers throughout history have pushed the boundaries of sex and violence when making religious films. In this unrivaled text, author and educator Richard Lindsay analyzes the relationship between bible-based epics and "camp"—films with overwrought acting, casts of thousands, and exotic sexuality. Lindsay presents the ways in which camp style identifies films as "biblical" in the mainstream imagination, while undermining their traditional religious messages through the inclusion of sexually diverse subtexts.Viewed through this lens, this provocative book explores topics like the Jazz Age excesses of The King of Kings, the pre-code decadence of The Sign of the Cross, the horror movie tropes of The Passion of the Christ, and comparisons between Ben-Hur and the gay male fantasies of 1960s beefcake magazines. Additional content features the history of biblical epics and a comparison of the pious expectations of filmgoers against the real content of the films.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-06-19
Mått:156 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781440837524

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Film inom Kultur

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Richard Lindsay, PhD, teaches communication at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.

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Hollywood Biblical Epics brings together strains of gay and cinematic history that make for a very entertaining tour of American culture.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "It Is as It Was"Part I Parallel Passion Plays: The King of Kings and The Passion of the ChristChapter 1 The Scripturalization of The King of Kings and The Passion of the ChristChapter 2 The Camp King of Kings and the Monstrous PassionPart II Cold War Camp in Midcentury Biblical FilmsChapter 3 The Orgies of God: Anti-Communist Gospel, the Gospel of the Production Code, and the Gospel of Spectacle in Postwar Biblical FilmsChapter 4 "You're Not a Well Woman, Honey": Effeminate Villains in Biblical FilmsChapter 5 Ben-Hur and the Beefcake BibleAfterwordNotesResource GuideIndex

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