Pontius Pilate on Screen : : Soldier, Sinner, Superstar / / Christopher McDonough.
Pontius Pilate in film from the silent era to the twenty-first centuryOffers an extended discussion of the history and tradition of Pontius PilateLooks at topics connected to Pontius Pilate’s reception, including the sound of his voice, his use of his hands, his wife Claudia Procula, and his Roman s...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Screening Antiquity : SCAN
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 19 B/W illustrations 19 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Frontispiece
- Prologue: ‘Do You Enjoy Being a Symbol, Pontius?’ The Trial of Pontius Pilate and Governor Collins
- 1 Quod Scripsi Scripsi
- 2 The Silent Pilate
- 3 The Roman in the Living Room: Pilate on TV in the Early 1950s
- 4 Mrs Pilate: Claudia Procula and Clare Boothe Luce
- 5 Pilate in CinemaScope, or Notes on Roman Camp
- 6 Finding Meaning in the Middlebrow: Pilate in the 1960s
- 7 What Is Truth? Pilate as 1970s Moral Relativist
- 8 Michael Palin’s Accent in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, and a Few Others
- 9 Grand and Not-So-Grand Inquisitors of the Reagan Age
- 10 ‘We at War’: Pilate for the New Millennium
- Epilogue: A Time of Handwashing
- Works Cited
- Index