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Author:   Wickham Clayton
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.603kg
ISBN:  

9781526136572

ISBN 10:   1526136570
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   17 January 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction – Wickham Clayton Part I: Producing biblical film and television 1 Battles over the biblical epic: Hollywood, Christians and the American Culture Wars – Karen Patricia Heath 2 Depicting ‘biblical’ narratives: a test case on Noah – Peter Phillips 3 Special effects and CGI in the biblical epic film – Andrew B. R. Elliott 4 The phenomenon of biblical telenovelas in Brazil and Latin America – Clarice Greco, Mariana Marques de Lima and Tissiana Nogueira Pereira Part II: Modern narratives and contexts in adapting the Bible 5 Mythic cinema and the contemporary biblical epic – Mikel J. Koven 6 The Nativity reborn: genre and the birth and childhood of Jesus – Matthew Page 7 Convince me: conversion narratives in the modern biblical epic – Chris Davies Part III: Critical readings and receptions 8 Controversy and the ‘Culture War’: exploring tensions between the secular and the sacred in Noah, the ‘least biblical biblical movie ever’ – Becky Bartlett 9 ‘Can anything good come out of Southern California?’* (*hyperlink to John 1:46): the Christian critical reception of elliptical Jesus narratives – Wickham Clayton 10 Examining the digital religion paradigm: a mixed-method analysis of online community perception of epic biblical movies – Gregory P. Perreault and Thomas S. Mueller Part IV: Culture and representation 11 The devil and the Culture Wars: demonising controversy in The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ – Karra Shimabukuro 12 Ben-Her(?): soft stardom, melodrama and the critique of epic masculinity in Ben-Hur (2016) – Thomas J. West III 13 The biblical-trial film: social contexts in L’Inchiesta and Risen – Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar 14 ‘Squint against the grandeur’: iconoclasm and film genre in The Passion of the Christ and Hail, Caesar! – Martin Stollery Filmography Index -- .

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

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