Screen Jesus
Subtitle: portrayals of Christ in television and film
By: Peter Malone
Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Inc.; Scarecrow Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780810883895; 9780810883901
Subjects: In motion pictures
Description: Screen Jesus takes a close look at both mainstream and lesser-known films in which Jesus is depicted. In addition to providing a historical overview of the Jesus films, this book also reveals the changes in piety and the theological understandings of the humanity and divinity of Jesus over the decades. --from publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Maggie Roux; title: Introducing the theme; title: The Jesus figure; title: Biblical portraits of Jesus; title: The Jesus films: the early 20th century; title: The Jesus films: the 1920s and Cecil B. De Mille; title: The Jesus films: Jesus' absence from the mainstream: the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s' evangelical Jesus-figures; title: The Jesus films: mainstream images; title: The Jesus films: the 1960s; title: The Jesus films: the 1970s; title: The Jesus films: the 1980s; title: The Jesus films: cinema freedom and images of Jesus; title: The Jesus films: the 1990s; title: The Jesus films: the 21st century; title: The Jesus films: Jesus in our world today; title: The Jesus films: verbal Jesus-figures; title: Interest in Jesus and film beyond Christianity; title: The reverent/serious and the bizarre.