The Bible in Motion
Author | : Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 940 |
Release | : 2016-09-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781614513261 |
ISBN-13 | : 1614513260 |
Rating | : 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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; considering issues of biblical reception across a wide array of film genres, ranging from noir to anime; featuring directors, from Lee Chang-dong to the Coen brothers, whose body of work reveals an enduring fascination with biblical texts and motifs; and offering topical essays on cinema’s treatment of selected biblical themes (e.g., lament, apocalyptic), particular interpretive lenses (e.g., feminist interpretation, queer theory), and windows into biblical reception in a variety of world cinemas (e.g., Indian, Israeli, and Third Cinema). This handbook is intended for scholars of the Bible, religion, and film as well as for a wider general audience.