The Bible in Motion : : A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film / / ed. by Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Abrams, Nathan,; Beavis, Mary Ann,; Beddingfield, Meghan Alexander,; Burnette-Bletsch, Rhonda,; Chattaway, Peter T.,; Ehrlich, Carl S.,; Ellis, Robert,; Elwell, J. Sage,; Exum, J. Cheryl,; Friesen, Dwight H.,; Giere, Samuel D.,; Gravett, Sandie,; Heard, R. Christopher,; Hebron, Carol A.,; Hioki, N. Frances,; Humphries-Brooks, Stephenson,; Jefford, Clayton N.,; Jumper, Nathan,; Kickasola, Joseph G.,; Kirk, J. R. Daniel,; Koosed, Jennifer L.,; Kozlovic, Anton Karl,; Lindsay, Richard A.,; Lindvall, Chris,; Lindvall, Terry,; Malone, Peter,; Mäder, Marie-Therese,; Ogura, Fumi,; Ortiz, Gaye Williams,; O’Brien, Catherine,; Page, Matthew,; Pippin, Tina,; Punt, Jeremy,; Reinhartz, Adele,; Rindge, Matthew S.,; Runions, Erin,; Sanders, Theresa,; Seesengood, Robert Paul,; Shepherd, David J.,; Sison, Antonio D.,; Stichele, Caroline Vander,; Tatum, W. Barnes,; Uhlenbruch, Frauke,; Vaux, Sara Anson,; Walsh, Richard,; Zanger, Anat Y.,; Zwick, Reinhold,
• HerausgeberIn: Burnette-Bletsch, Rhonda,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Handbooks of the Bible and Its Reception (HBR) , 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXXIV, 922 p.)

This two-part volume contains a comprehensive collection of original studies by well-known scholars focusing on the Bible’s wide-ranging reception in world cinema. It is organized into sections examining the rich cinematic afterlives of selected characters from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament; co...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Contributors
• Abbreviations
• General Introduction: The Bible
• I. Biblical Characters and Stories (Hebrew Bible)
• 1. In the Beginning: Adam and Eve in Film
• 2. Noah and the Flood: A Cinematic Deluge
• 3. It’s All in the Family: The Patriarchs of Genesis in Film
• 4. The Cinematic Moses
• 5. Samson and Delilah in Film
• 6. There Might Be Giants: King David on the Big (and Small) Screen
• 7. Esther in Film
• II. Film Genres and Styles
• 8. Scripture on Silent Film
• 9. Film Noir and the Bible
• 10. The Bible Epic
• 11. Western Text(s): The Bible and the Movies of the Wild, Wild West
• 12. Mysteries of the Bible (Documentary) Revealed: The Bible in Popular Non‐Fiction and Documentary Film
• 13. From Skepticism to Piety: The Bible and Horror Films
• 14. “Moses’ DVD Collection”: The Bible and Science Fiction Film
• 15. The Word Made Gag: Biblical Reception in Film Comedy
• 16. Drawing (on) the Text: Biblical Reception in Animated Films
• 17. Anime and the Bible
• III. Biblical Themes and Genres
• 18. God at the Movies
• 19. Satan in Cinema
• 20. Creation and Origins in Film
• 21. The Book of Job in the Movies: On Cinema’s Exploration of Theodicy and the Hiddenness of God
• 22. Lament in Film and Film as Lament
• 23. What Lies Beyond? Biblical Images of Death and Afterlife in Film
• 24. This Is the End: Apocalyptic Moments in Cinema
• IV. Biblical Characters and Stories (New Testament)
• 25. Jesus and the Gospels at the Movies
• 26. Women in the Cinematic Gospels
• 27. Judas as Portrayed in Film
• 28. Jews and Judaism in New Testament Films
• 29. Paul and the Early Church in Film
• 30. Mythic Relevance of Revelation in Film
• V. Cinemas and Auteurs
• 31. David Wark Griffith: Filming the Bible as the U.S. Story
• 32 Alice Guy Blaché and Gene Gauntier: Bringing New Perspectives to Film
• 33. Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates: Emergent History and a Gospel of Middle‐Class Liberation
• 34. Cecil B. DeMille: Hollywood’s Lay Preacher
• 35. Reframing Jesus: Dreyer’s Lifelong Passion
• 36. Luis Buñuel: Atheist by the Grace of God
• 37. Robert Bresson: Biblical Resonance from a Christian Atheist
• 38. Roberto Rossellini: From Spiritual Searcher to History’s Documentarian
• 39. Federico Fellini: From Catholicism to the Collective Unconscious
• 40. John Huston: The Atheistic Noah
• 41. Stanley Kubrick: Midrashic Movie Maker
• 42. In the Wake of the Bible: Krzysztof Kieślowski and the Residual Divine in Contemporary Life
• 43. Peter Weir: Man of Mystery, Mysticism, and the Mundane
• 44. Cheick Oumar Sissoko: West African Activist and Storyteller
• 45. Lee Chang-Dong: Exploring the Hidden Christ
• 46. Mark Dornford-May: Transposing the Classic
• 47. Serious Men: Scripture in the Coen Brothers Films
• 48. Liberative Visions: Biblical Reception in Third Cinema
• 49. The Reception of Biblical Films in India: Observations and a Case Study
• 50. “A Ram Butts His Broad Horns Again and Again against the Wall of the House”: The Binding Myth in Israeli Film
• VI. Voices from the Margins
• 51. Judaism and Antisemitism in Bible Movies
• 52. Ethnicity and Biblical Reception in Eve and the Fire Horse
• 53. A Slave Narrative for the “Post-Racial” Obama Age
• 54. The Temptation of Noah: The Debate about Patriarchal Violence in Darren Aronofsky’s Noah
• 55. Gay Male Villains in Biblical Epic Films
• 56. Imperialism in New Testament Films
• Film Index
• Scripture Index
• Subject Index