Pontius Pilate on Screen

Sinner, Soldier, Superstar

AvChristopher M. McDonough

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Who is Pontius Pilate? Who do the movies say that he is? What is truth? Pontius Pilate On Screen deals with one of history's most controversial characters. From Monty Python's Life of Brian to Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ, Pontius Pilate is a figure of evidently endless fascination to filmmakers. The Roman prefect is depicted at times as the hapless victim of machinations beyond his control and at other times as the heartless villain of the piece. If in films about the Passion Jesus represents eternal truth, Pilate symbolises the values of the present whether it is the lingering trauma of the Holocaust, the ongoing struggle over Civil Rights or the polarised politics of the current day as filmmakers endeavour again and again to portray in Pontius Pilate a compelling counter-figure to Jesus himself. This book considers portrayals of Pontius Pilate in film from the silent era to the twenty-first century. It discusses over 25 films in detail, including Cecil B. DeMille's King of Kings (1927), Norman Jewison's Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Martin Scorsese's Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (2004) and Sony's Risen (2016). Based on extensive archival research and original interviews with actors, screenwriters and producers, it offers an extended discussion of the history, tradition and reception of Pontius Pilate.Christopher M.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-10-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt:604 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Screening Antiquity
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474446884

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Allmän historia och världshistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
Film inom Kultur

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Christopher McDonough is Professor of Classics at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. He is the author of Servius’ Commentary on Aeneid Book Four: An Annotated Translation (Bolchazy-Carducci, 2004). He is the author of many articles on a range of topics including Ovid, Latin language and literature, mythology, literature in translation and Classics in cinema.

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Certainly the only ancient Roman prefect remembered throughout Western history, Pontius Pilate, the Christmastide/Eastertide "truth" seeker often quoted, maligned, and even "widiculed," fittingly warrants this extremely engaging survey of his notable cinematic representations by Basil Rathbone, Frank Thring, Jean Marais, Rod Steiger, Telly Savalas, Michael Palin, and many, many others.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations.Prologue."Do You Enjoy Being A Symbol, Pontius?" The Trial of Pontius Pilate and Governor CollinsChapter One.Quod Scripsi ScripsiChapter Two.The Silent Pilate　Chapter Three.The Roman in the Living Room: Pilate on TV in the Early 1950sChapter Four.Mrs. Pilate: Claudia Procula and Clare Boothe LuceChapter Five.Pilate in CinemaScope, or, Notes on Roman CampChapter Six.Finding Meaning in the Middlebrow: Pilate in the SixtiesChapter Seven.What Is Truth? Pilate as Seventies Moral RelativistChapter Eight.Michael Palin’s Accent in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, and a Few OthersChapter Nine.Grand and Not-so-Grand Inquisitors of the Reagan AgeChapter Ten."We At War": Pilate for the New MillenniumEpilogue.A Time of Hand-washingWorks Cited.Endnotes.

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