T&T Clark Handbook of Jesus and Film

Buch | Softcover

376 Seiten

2022
T.& T.Clark Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-567-69839-1 (ISBN)

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The T&T Clark Handbook of Jesus and Film introduces postgraduate readers to the critical field of Jesus and/on film. The bulk of biblical films feature Jesus, as protagonist, in cameo, or as a looming background presence or pattern. The handbook assesses the field in light of the work of important biblical film critics including chapters from the leading voices in the field and showcasing the diversity of work done by scholars in the field. Movies discussed include The Passion of the Christ, The King of Kings, Jesus of Nazareth, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Son of Man, and Mary Magdalene.

The chapters range across two broad areas: 1) Jesus films, understood broadly as filmed passion plays, other relocations of Jesus, historical Jesus treatments, and Jesus adjacent cinema (privileging invented characters or “minor” gospel characters); and 2) other cinematic Jesuses, including followers who imitate Jesus devotionally or aesthetically, (Christian) Christ figures, antichrists, yet other messiahs, and competing Jesuses in a pluralist world. As one leaves the confines of Christian theology, the question of what a film or interpreter is doing with Jesus or Christ becomes something to be determined, not necessarily something traditional.

Richard Walsh is Womack Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Methodist University, USA.

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Jesus Film Tradition - Richard Walsh, Methodist University, USA
Part One: The Jesus Film Tradition
1. Obscure Gospel Elements in Jesus Films - Peter T. Chattaway, film critic, Canada
2. “Who Do you Say That I Am?” Responses to Cinema Sequences of the Woman Taken in Adultery - Peter Malone, Catholic priest and teacher, Australia
3. One Hundred Years of Cinematic Attempts at Raising a Stiff (Jn 11:1-46) - Jeffrey L. Staley, retired, Seattle University, USA
4. Seeing Differently with Mary Magdalene - Michelle Fletcher, King’s College London, UK
5. Inculturation and Actualization: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s Histoire de Judas - Reinhold Zwick, University of Münster, Germany
6. Through Other Eyes: Point of View and Defamiliarization in Jesus Films - Steven D. Greydanus, Decent Films, USA
7. The First Seventy Years of Jesus Films: A Canonical, Source-Critical History - Jeffrey L. Staley, retired, Seattle University, USA
8. Reading the Gospel(s) in the Dark: The Gospel Effect - Richard Walsh, Methodist University, USA
9. The “False Syllogism” of Archaeological Authenticity in Jesus Movies - Kevin M. McGeough, University of Lethbridge, Canada
10. Jesus of Cinecittà - Matthew Page, BibleFilmsBlog, UK
11. Three Revolutionary Gospel Films: By the People, with the People, and for the People - Lloyd Baugh, retired, Gregorian University Rome, Italy
12. Jesus in a Modern Contemporary Context - Freek L. Bakker, retired, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
13. Miéville, Godard, and Dolto: The Psychoanalysis of Mary and Joseph - Anne Moore, Calgary University, Canada
14. From the New Testament to The Brand New Testament: Moving Beyond “Jesus” Films - Caroline Vander Stichele, University of Tilburg, the Netherlands

Part Two: Other Jesuses, Christs, Messiahs, Sons of Men …
15. “Walk[ing] upon that Gospel Highway”: Experiencing Physical Pilgrimages, Places, and People in The Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus - James M. Cochran, Hartwick College, USA
16 Scorsese’s Jesus: Christology in The Last Temptation of Christ and Silence - Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch, Eastern University, USA
17. Obviously, It’s a Christ-figure Movie…Or is It? - Robert K. Johnston, Codirector of the Reel Spirituality Institute, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA
18. Sacred Subtexts and the Biblical Buttressing of Klaatu as a Christ Figure in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - Anton Karl Kozlovic, Flinders University, Australia
19. Guillermo del Toro’s El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth) and the Subversion of the Cinematic Jesus/Christ figure - Matthew S. Rindge, Gonzaga University, USA
20. Failed Christ Figures in Québec Films - Adele Reinhartz, University of Ottawa, Canada
21. (Un)Holy Saturday - Tina Pippin, Agnes Scott College, USA
22. The Bible in the Star Trek Universe (2000-19) - Larry J. Kreitzer, University of Oxford, UK
23. A Modest Proposal for Christ-Figure Interpretations: Explicated with Two Test Cases - Richard Walsh, Methodist University, USA
24. Messianism and the Horror Film: Transcendence and Salvation in The Mist and Martyrs - Brandon R. Grafius, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, USA
25. “It’s Alive!”: Frankenstein and His Horrible Fellows as Messianic Figures - Robert Paul Seesengood, Albright College, USA
26. Founding the New Old State: Messianic Cowboys on the Frontiers of Europe and America - Ward Blanton, University of Kent, and James Crossley, St. Mary’s University, UK
27. Lars and the Real Girl as a Son of Man Story - George Aichele, retired, Adrian College, USA
Bibliography
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Erscheinungsdatum	06.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	T&T Clark Handbooks
Zusatzinfo	37 bw illus
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-567-69839-4 / 0567698394
ISBN-13	978-0-567-69839-1 / 9780567698391
Zustand	Neuware