Hollywood biblical epics
Subtitle: Camp Spectacle and Queer Style from the silent era to the modern day
By: Richard Lindsay
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781440837524
Subjects: Bible films; History and criticism; Homosexuality and motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-183) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "It is as it was"; title: Part 1. The scripturalization of the King of Kings and The passion of the Christ; title: The camp King of kings and the monstrous passion; title: Part 2. The orgies of God: anti-communist gospel, the gospel of the production code, and the gospel of spectacle in postwar biblical films; title: "You're not a well woman, honey": effeminate villains in biblical films; title: Ben-Hur and the beefcake bible; title: Afterword.