Wickham Clayton is Lecturer in Film Production at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham

• Introduction – Wickham ClaytonPart I: Producing biblical film and television1 Battles over the biblical epic: Hollywood, Christians and the American Culture Wars – Karen Patricia Heath2 Depicting ‘biblical’ narratives: a test case on Noah – Peter Phillips3 Special effects and CGI in the biblical epic film – Andrew B. R. Elliott4 The phenomenon of biblical telenovelas in Brazil and Latin America – Clarice Greco, Mariana Marques de Lima and Tissiana Nogueira PereiraPart II: Modern narratives and contexts in adapting the Bible5 Mythic cinema and the contemporary biblical epic – Mikel J. Koven6 The Nativity reborn: genre and the birth and childhood of Jesus – Matthew Page7 Convince me: conversion narratives in the modern biblical epic – Chris DaviesPart III: Critical readings and receptions8 Controversy and the ‘Culture War’: exploring tensions between the secular and the sacred in Noah, the ‘least biblical biblical movie ever’ – Becky Bartlett9 ‘Can anything good come out of Southern California?’* (*hyperlink to John 1:46): the Christian critical reception of elliptical Jesus narratives – Wickham Clayton10 Examining the digital religion paradigm: a mixed-method analysis of online community perception of epic biblical movies – Gregory P. Perreault and Thomas S. MuellerPart IV: Culture and representation11 The devil and the Culture Wars: demonising controversy in The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ – Karra Shimabukuro12 Ben-Her(?): soft stardom, melodrama and the critique of epic masculinity in Ben-Hur (2016) – Thomas J. West III13 The biblical-trial film: social contexts in L’Inchiesta and Risen – Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar14 ‘Squint against the grandeur’: iconoclasm and film genre in The Passion of the Christ and Hail, Caesar! – Martin StolleryFilmographyIndex

Wickham Clayton is Lecturer in Film Production at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham

• Introduction – Wickham ClaytonPart I: Producing biblical film and television1 Battles over the biblical epic: Hollywood, Christians and the American Culture Wars – Karen Patricia Heath2 Depicting ‘biblical’ narratives: a test case on Noah – Peter Phillips3 Special effects and CGI in the biblical epic film – Andrew B. R. Elliott4 The phenomenon of biblical telenovelas in Brazil and Latin America – Clarice Greco, Mariana Marques de Lima and Tissiana Nogueira PereiraPart II: Modern narratives and contexts in adapting the Bible5 Mythic cinema and the contemporary biblical epic – Mikel J. Koven6 The Nativity reborn: genre and the birth and childhood of Jesus – Matthew Page7 Convince me: conversion narratives in the modern biblical epic – Chris DaviesPart III: Critical readings and receptions8 Controversy and the ‘Culture War’: exploring tensions between the secular and the sacred in Noah, the ‘least biblical biblical movie ever’ – Becky Bartlett9 ‘Can anything good come out of Southern California?’* (*hyperlink to John 1:46): the Christian critical reception of elliptical Jesus narratives – Wickham Clayton10 Examining the digital religion paradigm: a mixed-method analysis of online community perception of epic biblical movies – Gregory P. Perreault and Thomas S. MuellerPart IV: Culture and representation11 The devil and the Culture Wars: demonising controversy in The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ – Karra Shimabukuro12 Ben-Her(?): soft stardom, melodrama and the critique of epic masculinity in Ben-Hur (2016) – Thomas J. West III13 The biblical-trial film: social contexts in L’Inchiesta and Risen – Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar14 ‘Squint against the grandeur’: iconoclasm and film genre in The Passion of the Christ and Hail, Caesar! – Martin StolleryFilmographyIndex