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Subtitle: the Bible in contemporary cinema
By: edited by Geert Hallbäck and Annika Hvithamar.
Contributors: Hallbäck, Geert.; Hvithamar, Annika.
Series: The Bible in the modern world -- 15; Bible in the modern world -- 15
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781906055363
Subjects: Bible -- In motion pictures; Religion in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 'Escaping' from the world through film : theological perspectives on the 'real' and the 'reel' / Christopher Deacy; title: Religion in new Danish cinema / Mikkel Fugl Eskjær; title: Images of salvation in Tsotsi, In America, and Levity / Árni Svanur Daníelsson; title: Eden revisited : categorizing Eden themes in film / Thorkell Ágúst Óttarsson; title: The Madonna's tear : biblical images in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky / Gerard Loughlin; title: Mary Magdalene in motion / Caroline Vander Stichele; title: More pain, more gain! : on Mel Gibson's film, The passion of the Christ / Arnfriður Guðmundsdóttir; title: Jesus and Josephine : the Bible in Danish popular culture / Jesper Tang Nielsen; title: Trekkies, Jedi-knights and pop witches : fantasy and science fiction as religion / Britt Istoft.