Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film Malone, Peter. creator text bibliography Electronic books. xx Lanham Scarecrow Press 2012 monographic eng 1 online resource (528 pages) In Screen Jesus: Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film, Peter Malone takes a close look at films in which Jesus is depicted. From silent renditions of The Passion Play to 21st-century blockbusters like The Passion of the Christ, Malone examines how the history of Jesus films reflects the changes in artistic styles and experiments in cinematic forms for more than a century. In addition to providing a historical overview of the Jesus films, this book also reveals the changes in piety and in theological understandings of the humanity and divinity of Jesus over the decades. Foreword; Introducing the Theme; Chapter 1: The Jesus-Figure; Chapter 2: Biblical Portraits of Jesus; Chapter 3: The Jesus Films: The Early Twentieth Century; Chapter 4: The Jesus Films: The 1920s and Cecil B. DeMille; Chapter 5: The Jesus Films: The 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s-Jesus' Absence from the Mainstream and Evangelical Jesus-Figures; Chapter 6: The Jesus Films: The 1950s and 1960s-Mainstream Images; Chapter 7: The Jesus Films: The 1960s; Chapter 8: The Jesus Films: The 1970s; Chapter 9: The Jesus Films: The 1980s; Chapter 10: The Jesus Films: Cinema Freedom and Images of Jesus. Chapter 11: The Jesus Films: The 1990sChapter 12: The Jesus Films: The Twenty-first Century; Chapter 13: The Jesus Films: Jesus in Our World Today; Chapter 14: The Jesus Films: Verbal Jesus-Figures; Chapter 15: Interest in Jesus and Film Beyond Christianity; Chapter 16: The Reverent/Serious; Chapter 17: The Bizarre; Chapter 18: After The Passion of the Christ; Afterword: More Than a Hundred Years of Jesus Films; Appendix 1: The Major Jesus Films; Appendix 2: Jesus and the Crucifix; Appendix 3: The Issue of Films on Jesus and Sexuality. Appendix 4: Interview with the Director of Jesus, the Spirit of GodSelected Background Reading; About the Author. Includes bibliographical references and index. Jesus Christ In motion pictures Jesus Christ Jesus Christus Jesus Christ In motion pictures PERFORMING ARTS Reference Motion pictures Bibel Fernsehfilm Film PN1995.9 .J4 2012eb 791.4368232 Malone, Peter. Lanham : Scarecrow Press, ©2012 9780810883901 0810883902 19CC9661-CB40-48F1-B401-91C44703D3DA OverDrive, Inc. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=506275 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=506275 EBLCP 130803 20200709055651.0 ocn854969028 eng