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Sections
- Historical Jesus
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- Please see the Course Bibliography
for my course, SCTR 27 The Historical Jesus.
- Jesus in Art & Popular Culture
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- Meyer, Marvin and Charles Hughes, eds. Jesus Then and Now: Images of Jesus in History and Christology. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2001.
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- Miller, Vincent J. Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture. New York: Continuum, 2003.
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- Mork, Gordon R. "Christ's Passion on Stage-The Traditional Melodrama of Deicide" Journal of Religion and Film 8:1 (2004). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1704&context=jrf.
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- Moyise, S. and J. Pearson. "Jesus in History and Film." In
From Sacred Text to Internet (ed. Gwilym Beckerlegge; Religion Today: Tradition,
Modernity and Change 1; Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate [The Open University], 2001).
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- Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Illustrated Jesus through the Centuries. New
Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1997.
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- --------. Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990.
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- --------. Jesus through the Centuries: His Place in the History
of Culture. New Haven, Connecticut: 1985.
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- Prothero, Stephen R. American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a
National Icon. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003.
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- Particular
Representations
- Jesus in Film
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- Online Resources
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- Roger Ebert, "Movie
Reviews," Chicago Sun-Times.
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- Internet
Movie Database.
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- Rotten
Tomatoes.
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- General Treatments
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- Anker,
Roy M. "Lights, Camera, Jesus." Christianity
Today 44 (2000) 58-64.
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- Babington,
Bruce and Peter William Evans. "The Lives of Christ: The Greatest
Story Ever Screened." In Biblical Epics: Sacred Narrative in
the Hollywood Cinema (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993) 98-109.
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- Baugh,
Lloyd. Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film. Kansas
City, Missouri: Sheed and Ward, 1997.
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- Chattaway,
Peter T. "Jesus in the Movies." Bible Review
14 (1998) 28-35, 45-6.
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- Deacy, Christopher. "Images
of Christ in Recent Film." In Screen Christologies: Redemption
and the Medium of Film. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001.
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- Fitch, John, III. "Archetypes on Screen: Odysseus, St. Paul, Christ and the American Cinematic Hero and Anti-Hero." Journal of Religion and Film 9:1 (2005). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1663&context=jrf.
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- Flesher, Paul V. M. and Robert Torry. "Filming Jesus: Between Authority and Heresy." Journal of Religion and Film 8:1 (2004). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1715&context=jrf.
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- Graham, David J. "Images of Christ in Recent Film." In
Images of Christ: Ancient and Modern (ed. Stanley E. Porter, Michael A.
Hayes and David Tombs; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997) 306-314.
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- Howell, David B. "Screening the Temptation: Interpretation and Indeterminacy in Cinematic Transformations of a Gospel Story." Journal of Religion and Film 11:2 (2007). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1574&context=jrf.
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- Hurley,
Neil P. "Cinematic Transfigurations of Jesus." In
Religion in Film (ed. John R. May and Michael Bird; Knoxville: University
of Tennessee Press, 1982) 61-78.
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- Kinnard, Roy and Tim Daly. Divine Images: A History
of Jesus on the Screen. New York: Carol, 1992.
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- Mahan,
Jeffrey. "Celluloid Savior: Jesus in the Movies." The
Journal of Film and Religion 6 (1 2002). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1772&context=jrf,
27 August 2002.
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- Malone, Peter. "Jesus on Our Screens." In
New Image of Religious Film (ed. John R. May; Kansas City, Missouri: Sheed
& Ward, 1997) 57-71.
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- McDermott, Jim. "Is It Possible
to Portray Christ in Film?" Christian Arts 1 (1994) 20-22.
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- McEver, Matthew. "The Messianic Figure in Film: Christology
beyond the Biblical Epic." The Journal of Film and Religion
2 (2 1998); Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1851&context=jrf,
27 August 2002.
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- Moyise, S. and J. Pearson. "Jesus in History and Film." In
From Sacred Text to Internet (ed. Gwilym Beckerlegge; Religion Today: Tradition,
Modernity and Change 1; Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate [The Open University], 2001).
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- Plate, S. Brent. Religion and Film: Cinema as the Re-creation of the World. London: Wallflower, 2009.
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- Reinhartz, Adele. "Jesus in Film: Hollywood Perspectives
on the Jewishness of Jesus." The Journal of Film and Religion
2 (2 1998). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1853&context=jrf,
27 August 2002.
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- --------. "Jesus of Hollywood." In
The Historical Jesus through Catholic and Jewish Eyes (ed. Brian F. Le
Beau, Leonard Greenspoon and Dennis Hamm; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press
International, 2000) 131-46.
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- Soukup,
Paul A. "Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ Figures in Film." Theological
Studies 59 (1998) 58-64.
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- Tatum, W. Barnes. Jesus
at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years. Sonoma, California:
Polebridge Press, 1998.
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- Telford, William R. "Jesus
Christ Movie Star: The Depiction of Jesus in the Cinema." In Explorations
in Theology and Film: Movies and Meaning (ed. Clive Marsh and Gaye Ortiz;
Oxford: Blackwell, 1998) 115-39.
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- Thompson, John O. "Jesus
as Moving Image: The Question of Movement." In Images of Christ:
Ancient and Modern (ed. Stanley E. Porter, Michael A. Hayes and David Tombs;
Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997) 290-304.
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- Walsh, Richard. Reading
the Gospels in the Dark: Portrayals of Jesus in Film. Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2003.
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- Whitney-Schenck,
Marci, ed. "Faces of Christ." Christian Arts
1 (1994) 4-11, 20-26.
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- Particular Movies
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- The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
- Alice Guy-Blaché (1906)
- Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont
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- Dixon, Wheeler Winston. "Alice Guy: Forgotten Pioneer of the Narrative Cinema." New Orleans Review 19:3/4 (1992) 6-15.
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- Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey. "Performativity and Gender in Alice Guy's 'La vie du Christ.'" Film Criticism 23:1 (1998) 6-17.
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- From the Manger to the Cross
- Sidney Olcott (1912)
- Kalem Company/Kino
International Video
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- Avalos, Hector. "Film and the Apologetics of Biblical Violence." Journal of Religion and Film 13:1 (2009). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1507&context=jrf.
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- Baugh, Lloyd. "The Early
Years." In Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film (Communication, Culture and Theology; Franklin, Wisconsin: Sheed & Ward,
1997) 9-10, 238-41.
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- Keil, Charles. "From
the Manger to the Cross: The New Testament Narrative and the Question of Stylistic
Retardation." In Une invention du diable? Cinema des premiers
temps et religion (Quebec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 1992) 112-20.
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- Mahan, Jeffrey H. "Celluloid Savior: Jesus in the Movies." Journal of Religion and Film 6:1 (2002). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1772&context=jrf.
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- Reinhartz, Adele. "Passion-ate Moments in the Jesus Film Genre." Journal of Religion and Film 8:1 (2004). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1706&context=jrf.
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- Tatum, W. Barnes. "Sidney
Olcott, From the Manger to the Cross." In Jesus
at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years (Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1997)
20-30, 215-16.
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- Intolerance
- D. W. Griffith (1916)
- Kino International Video
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- Baugh,
Lloyd. "The Early Years." In Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film (Communication, Culture and Theology; Franklin,
Wisconsin: Sheed & Ward, 1997) 10-11, 238-41.
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- Reinhartz, Adele. "Jesus in Film: Hollywood Perspectives on the Jewishness of Jesus." Journal of Religion and Film 2:2 (1998). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1853&context=jrf.
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- --------. "Passion-ate Moments in the Jesus Film Genre." Journal of Religion and Film 8:1 (2004). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1706&context=jrf.
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- Tatum, W. Barnes. "D.
W. Griffith, Intolerance." In Jesus
at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years (Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1997) 32-43, 216-17.
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- The King of Kings
- Cecil B. DeMille (1927)
- Motion Sound Pictures
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- Baugh,
Lloyd. "The Early Years." In Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film (Communication, Culture and Theology; Franklin,
Wisconsin: Sheed & Ward, 1997) 12-13, 238-41.
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- Landry, David. "God in the Details: The Cleansing of the Temple in Four Jesus Films." Journal of Religion and Film 13:2 (2009). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1497&context=jrf.
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- Reinhartz, Adele. "Passion-ate Moments in the Jesus Film Genre." Journal of Religion and Film 8:1 (2004). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1706&context=jrf.
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- Tatum, W. Barnes. "Cecil
B. DeMille, The King of Kings." In Jesus
at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years (Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1997) 44-57, 217-18.
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- The Robe
- Henry Koster (1953)
- Twentieth Century Fox
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- Baugh,
Lloyd. "The Early Years." In Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film (Communication, Culture and Theology; Franklin,
Wisconsin: Sheed & Ward, 1997) 15-16, 238-41.
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- Blake, Richard. "From Peepshow to Prayer: Toward a Spirituality of the Movies." Journal of Religion and Film 6:2 (2002). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1762&context=jrf.
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- Mahan, Jeffrey H. "Celluloid Savior: Jesus in the Movies." Journal of Religion and Film 6:1 (2002). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1772&context=jrf.
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- Tatum, W. Barnes. "William
Wyler, Ben-Hur (and others)." In Jesus
at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years (Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1997) 58-73, 218-19.
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- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
- William Wyler (1959)
- MGM/UA
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- Baugh,
Lloyd. "The Early Years." In Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film (Communication, Culture and Theology; Franklin,
Wisconsin: Sheed & Ward, 1997) 16, 238-41.
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- Blake, Richard. "From Peepshow to Prayer: Toward a Spirituality of the Movies." Journal of Religion and Film 6:2 (2002). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1762&context=jrf.
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- Mahan, Jeffrey H. "Celluloid Savior: Jesus in the Movies." Journal of Religion and Film 6:1 (2002). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1772&context=jrf.
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- Tatum, W. Barnes. "William
Wyler, Ben-Hur (and others)." In Jesus
at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years (Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1997) 58-73, 218-19.
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- The King of Kings
- Nicholas Ray (1961)
- MGM/UA
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- Baugh,
Lloyd. "The Gospel According to Hollywood: King of Kings
and The Greatest Story Ever Told." In Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film (Communication, Culture and Theology; Franklin,
Wisconsin: Sheed & Ward, 1997) 18-32, 242-8.
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- Tatum, W. Barnes. "Samuel
Bronston, King of Kings." In Jesus
at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years (Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1997) 74-85, 219-20.
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- Barabbas
- Richard Fleischer (1962)
- Dino De Laurentiis Studios
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- Baugh,
Lloyd. "The Early Years." In Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film (Communication, Culture and Theology; Franklin,
Wisconsin: Sheed & Ward, 1997) 17.
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- Jenkins, Bill. "Barabbas in Literature and Film." Journal of Religion and Society 11 (2009).
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- Jenkins, Bill. "Jesus Christ, Superstar? Why the Gospels Don't Make Good Movies." Journal of Religion and Film 12:2 (2008). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1546&context=jrf.
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- Tatum, W. Barnes. "William
Wyler, Ben-Hur (and others)." In Jesus
at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years (Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1997) 58-73, 218-19.
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- The
Greatest Story Ever Told
- George Stevens (1965)
- MGM
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- Baugh,
Lloyd. "The Gospel According to Hollywood: King of Kings
and The Greatest Story Ever Told." In Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film (Communication, Culture and Theology; Franklin,
Wisconsin: Sheed & Ward, 1997) 18-32, 242-8.
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- Mikkelson, Douglas
K. The Greatest Story Ever Told: A Silver Screen Gospel. Lanham,
Maryland: University Press of America, 2003.
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- Tatum, W. Barnes. "George
Stevens, The Greatest Story Ever Told." In Jesus
at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years (Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1997)
86-100, 220.
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- Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (The Gospel according to Saint Matthew)
- Pier Paolo Pasolini (1966)
- Alfredo Bini/Waterbearer Films
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- Aichele, George. "Translation as De-canonization: Matthew’s Gospel according to Pasolini." Cross Currents 51:4 (2002) 524-34.
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- Baugh, Lloyd. "The Masterpiece: The Gospel According to Saint Matthew." In
Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film (Communication, Culture
and Theology; Franklin, Wisconsin: Sheed & Ward, 1997) 94-106, 268-74.
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- Greene, Naomi. Pier Paolo Pasolini: Cinema as Heresy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
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- Leone, Massimo. "A Semiotic Comparison between Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Gospel According to Saint Matthew." Pastoral Psychology 53:4 (2005) 351-360.
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- Rohdie, Sam. The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Bloomington/ London: Indiana University Press/British Film Institute, 1995.
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- Steimatsky, Noa. "Pasolini on 'Terra Sancta': Towards a Theology of Film." Yale Journal of Criticism 11:1 (1998) 239-58.
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- Tatum,
W. Barnes. "Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Gospel According to St. Matthew." In
Jesus
at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years (Sonoma, California:
Polebridge, 1997) 102-115, 221.
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- Testa, Bart. "To Film a Gospel…and Advent of the Theoretical Stranger." In Pier Paolo Pasolini: Contemporary Perspectives (ed. Patrick Rumble and Bart Testa; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994) 180-209.
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- Zwick, Reinhold. "Reading Biblical Stories with Cinematic Eyes: A Methodological Approach from the Perspective of Transmedial Narratology." In Close Encounters between Bible and Film: An Interdisciplinary Engagement (ed. Laura Copier and Caroline Vander Stichele; Semeia Studies 87; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016) 79-102.
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- Jesus Christ Superstar
- Norman Jewison (1973)
- MCA Universal
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- Baugh,
Lloyd. "The Jesus Musicals: Jesus Christ Superstar and
Godspell." In Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film (Communication, Culture and Theology; Franklin, Wisconsin: Sheed &
Ward, 1997) 33-47, 248-52.
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- Goodacre, Mark. "Do You Think You're What They Say You Are? Reflections on Jesus Christ Superstar." Journal of Religion and Film 3:2 (1999). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1831&context=jrf.
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- Jenkins, Bill. "Jesus Christ, Superstar? Why the Gospels Don't Make Good Movies." Journal of Religion and Film 12:2 (2008). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1546&context=jrf.
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- Tatum, W. Barnes. "Norman Jewison, Jesus Christ Superstar; David Greene, Godspell." In Jesus
at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years (Sonoma, California: Polebridge,
1997) 116-33, 221-2.
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- Godspell
- David Greene (1973)
- Columbia Pictures
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- Baugh, Lloyd. "The
Jesus Musicals: Jesus Christ Superstar and Godspell." In
Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film (Communication, Culture
and Theology; Franklin, Wisconsin: Sheed & Ward, 1997) 33-47, 248-52.
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- Goodacre, Mark. "Do You Think You're What They Say You Are? Reflections on Jesus Christ Superstar." Journal of Religion and Film 3:2 (1999). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1831&context=jrf.
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- Mahan, Jeffrey H. "Celluloid Savior: Jesus in the Movies." Journal of Religion and Film 6:1 (2002). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1772&context=jrf.
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- Reinhartz, Adele. "Passion-ate Moments in the Jesus Film Genre." Journal of Religion and Film 8:1 (2004). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1706&context=jrf.
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- Tatum,
W. Barnes. "Norman Jewison, Jesus Christ Superstar; David Greene,
Godspell." In Jesus
at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years (Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1997) 116-33, 221-2.
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- Il Messia (The Messiah)
- Roberto Rossellini (1976)
- Vanguard Films
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- Baugh,
Lloyd. "Two Recent Classics: Jesus of Nazareth and The
Messiah." In Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film (Communication, Culture and Theology; Franklin, Wisconsin: Sheed &
Ward, 1997) 72-93, 261-8.
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- Reinhartz, Adele. "Passion-ate Moments in the Jesus Film Genre." Journal of Religion and Film 8:1 (2004). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1706&context=jrf.
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- Jesus of Nazareth
- Franco Zeffirelli (1977)
- NBC Television
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- Baugh, Lloyd. "Two Recent Classics: Jesus
of Nazareth and The Messiah." In Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film (Communication, Culture and Theology; Franklin,
Wisconsin: Sheed & Ward, 1997) 72-93, 261-8.
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- Reinhartz, Adele. "Passion-ate Moments in the Jesus Film Genre." Journal of Religion and Film 8:1 (2004). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1706&context=jrf.
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- Tatum, W. Barnes. "Franco
Zeffirelli, Jesus of Nazareth." In Jesus
at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years (Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1997) 134-45,
223.
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- The Life of Brian
- Terry Jones (1979)
- Handmade Films/Paramount
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- Baugh,
Lloyd. "The Scandal Films: The Life of Brian and The
Last Temptation of Christ." In Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film (Communication, Culture and Theology; Franklin,
Wisconsin: Sheed & Ward, 1997) 48-71, 252-61.
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- Davies, Philip
R. "Life of Brian Research." In Biblical
Studies/Cultural Studies: The Third Sheffield Colloquium (ed. J. Cheryl Exum
and Stephen D. Moore; JSOTSup 266/Gender, Culture, Theory 7; Sheffield: Sheffield
Academic Press, 1998) 400-414.
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- Dyke, Carl. "Learning
from the Life of Brian: Saviors for Seminars." In Screening
Scripture: Intertextual Connections between Scripture and Film (ed. George
Aichele and Richard Walsh; Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 2002) 229-50.
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- Taylor, Joan E, ed. Jesus and Brian: Exploring the Historical Jesus and His Times via Monty Python's Life of Brian. New York: T&T Clark, 2015.
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- Jesus
- John Krish and Peter Sykes (1979)
- Genesis Project/RPI (Randolf Productions,
Inc.)-Campus Crusade for Christ
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- Goodacre, Mark. "Do You Think You're What They Say You Are? Reflections on Jesus Christ Superstar." Journal of Religion and Film 3:2 (1999). Online, hhttps://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1831&context=jrf.
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- Tatum, W. Barnes. "John
Heyman, Jesus." In Jesus
at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years (Sonoma, California: Polebridge, 1997) 146-57, 223-4.
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- Jesus – der Film
- Michael Brynntrup (with episodes by 22 other filmmakers and collectives) (1986)
- Michael Brynntrup
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- Official Web site
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- Brynntrup, Michael. Jesus–der Film–das Buch. Berlin: Vorwerk 8, 2014.
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- The Last Temptation of Christ
- Martin Scorsese (1988)
- Universal Pictures/Cineplex Odeon Films
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- Baugh, Lloyd. "The
Scandal Films: The Life of Brian and The Last Temptation of Christ." In
Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film (Communication, Culture
and Theology; Franklin, Wisconsin: Sheed & Ward, 1997) 48-71, 252-61.
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- Medhurst, Martin J. "Temptation as Taboo: A Psychorhetorical Reading of The Last
Temptation of Christ." In The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on
Film (ed. David Blakesley; Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003) 55-
67.
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- Snee, Brian J. "The Spirit and the Flesh: The Rhetorical Nature of The Last Temptation
of Christ." Journal of Media & Religion 4:1 (2005) 45-61.
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- Staley, Jeffrey Lloyd. "Martin Scorsese’s Aviator as Theological Complement to His Last Temptation of Christ." In Close Encounters between Bible and Film: An Interdisciplinary Engagement (ed. Laura Copier and Caroline Vander Stichele; Semeia Studies 87; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016) 233-49.
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- Tatum,
W. Barnes. "John Heyman, Jesus." In Jesus
at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years (Sonoma, California: Polebridge,
1997) 146-57, 224.
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- Jésus of Montréal (Jesus of Montreal)
- Denys
Arcand (1989)
- Orion Classics
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- Baugh, Lloyd. "A
Film of Transition: Jesus of Montreal." In Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film (Communication, Culture and Theology;
Franklin, Wisconsin: Sheed & Ward, 1997) 113-29, 275-8.
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- Tatum,
W. Barnes. "Denys Arcand, Jesus of Montreal." In
Jesus
at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years (Sonoma, California:
Polebridge, 1997) 177-88, 225-6.
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- Jesus
- Roger Young (2000)
- Trimark Pictures
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- The Miracle Maker
- Stanislav Sokolov and Derek Hayes
(2000)
- Icon Productions/Family Home Entertainment
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- The Gospel of John
- Philip Saville (2003)
- Visual
Bible International, Inc.
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- Official
Web site
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- Reinhartz, Adele. "Passion-ate Moments in the Jesus Film Genre." Journal of Religion and Film 8:1 (2004). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1706&context=jrf.
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- The Passion of the Christ
- Mel Gibson (2004)
- Icon Productions
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- Official
Web site
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- Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious
Affairs, National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Criteria for
the Evaluation of Dramatizations of the Passion, Publication No. 211-X. Washington,
D.C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1988. Online, http://www.usccb.org/seia/CRITERIA.PDF.
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- Corley, Kathleen E. and Robert L. Webb, eds. Jesus
and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ: The Film, the Gospels and the Claims
of History. New York: Continuum, 2004.
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- Cunningham,
Philip A., ed. Pondering the Passion: What's at Stake for Christians
and Jews. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
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- Denton-Borhaug, Kelly. "A Bloodthirsty Salvation: Behind the Popular Polarized Reaction to Gibson's The Passion." Journal of Religion and Film 9:1 (2005). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1661&context=jrf.
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- Emmerich,
Anne Catherine. The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Rockford,
Illinois: TAN Books, 2004.
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- England, Claire. "Biblical
Scholars Assess Gibson's Passion in Book Timed for DVD's Release." RNS
- Religion News Service: Press Releases (9 July 2004).
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- Flannery-Dailey, Frances. "Biblical Scholarship and the Passion Surrounding The Passion of the Christ." Journal of Religion and Film 8:1 (2004). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1711&context=jrf.
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- Fredriksen, Paula. "History, Hollywood, and the Bible: Some Thoughts on Gibson's Passion." Journal of Religion and Film 8:1 (2004). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1713&context=jrf.
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- Herbel, Oliver. "An Orthodox Perspective on Gibson's The Passion of Christ." Journal of Religion and Film 8:2 (2004). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1674&context=jrf.
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- Landres,
J. Shawn and Michael Berenbaum, eds. After The Passion Is
Gone: American Religious Consequences. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman
& Littlefield, 2004.
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- Lawler, Michael G. "Sectarian Catholicism and Mel Gibson." Journal of Religion and Film 8:1 (2004). Online, https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1710&context=jrf.
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- Maresco, Peter A. "Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ: Market Segmentation, Mass Marketing and Promotion, and the Internet." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 8 (2004).
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