T&T Clark Handbook of Jesus and Film

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The T&T Clark Handbook of Jesus and Film introduces postgraduate readers to the critical field of Jesus and/on film. The bulk of biblical films feature Jesus, as protagonist, in cameo, or as a looming background presence or pattern. The handbook assesses the field in light of the work of important biblical film critics including chapters from the leading voices in the field and showcasing the diversity of work done by scholars in the field. Movies discussed include The Passion of the Christ, The King of Kings, Jesus of Nazareth, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, Son of Man, and Mary Magdalene. The chapters range across two broad areas: 1) Jesus films, understood broadly as filmed passion plays, other relocations of Jesus, historical Jesus treatments, and Jesus adjacent cinema (privileging invented characters or “minor” gospel characters); and 2) other cinematic Jesuses, including followers who imitate Jesus devotionally or aesthetically, (Christian) Christ figures, antichrists, yet other messiahs, and competing Jesuses in a pluralist world. As one leaves the confines of Christian theology, the question of what a film or interpreter is doing with Jesus or Christ becomes something to be determined, not necessarily something traditional. Cover Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Jesus Film Tradition Richard Walsh Part 1 The Jesus Film Tradition 1 Obscure Gospel Elements in Jesus Films Peter T. Chattaway 2 “Who Do You Say That I Am?”: Responses to Cinema Sequences of the Woman Taken in Adultery Peter Malone 3 One Hundred Years of Cinematic Attempts at Raising a Stiff (Jn 11:1-46) Jeffrey L. Staley 4 Seeing Differently with Mary Magdalene Michelle Fletcher 5 Inculturation and Actualization: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s Histoire de Judas Reinhold Zwick 6 Through Other Eyes: Point of View and Defamiliarization in Jesus Films Steven D. Greydanus 7 The First Seventy Years of Jesus Films: A Canonical, Source-Critical History Jeffrey L. Staley 8 Reading the Gospel(s) in the Dark: The Gospel Effect Richard Walsh 9 The “False Syllogism” of Archaeological Authenticity in Jesus Movies Kevin M. McGeough 10 Jesus of Cinecittà 11 Three Revolutionary Gospel Films: By the People, with the People, and for the People 12 Jesus in a Modern Contemporary Context 13 Miéville, Godard, and Dolto: The Psychoanalysis of Mary and Joseph 14 From the New Testament to The Brand New Testament: Moving beyond “Jesus” Films Caroline Vander Stichele Part 2 Other Jesuses, Christs, Messiahs, Sons of Men … 15 “Walk[ing] upon That Gospel Highway”: Experiencing Physical Pilgrimages, Places, and People in The Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus James M. Cochran 16 Scorsese’s Jesus: Christology in The Last Temptation of Christ and Silence Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch 17 Obviously, It’s a Christ-Figure Movie … Or Is It? Robert K. Johnston 18 Sacred Subtexts and the Biblical Buttressing of Klaatu as a Christ Figure in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 19 Guillermo del Toro’s El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth): Subverting the Cinematic Jesus/Christ Figure 20 Failed Christ Figures in Québec Films 21 (Un)Holy Saturday 22 The Bible in the Star Trek Universe (2000–2019) 23 A Modest Proposal for Christ-Figure Interpretations: Explicated with Two Test Cases 24 Messianism and the Horror Film: Transcendence and Salvation in The Mist and Martyrs 25 “It’s Alive!”: Frankenstein and His Horrible Fellows as Messianic Figures 26 Founding the New Old State: Messianic Cowboys on the Frontiers of Europe and America 27 Lars and the Real Girl as a Son of Man Story George Aichele Filmography Scripture Index Modern Authors/Filmmakers Index Film Index