The Silents of Jesus in the Cinema (1897-1927)

ISBN-13: 9780367869441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 292 str.

David Shepherd

Opis

Drawing upon rarely seen archival footage and the work of the silent era’s most important directors, such as Alice Guy, Ferdinand Zecca, Sidney Olcott, D.W. Griffith, and C.B. DeMille, this volume offers a representative survey of the Silents of Jesus, illustrating the ways in which a host of cinematic Saviors not only shaped the cinema, but were s

Spis treści

Introduction  David J. Shepherd  1. The Passion of the Christ: a form, a genre, a discourse  André Gaudreault  2. La Vie et Passion de Jésus Christ (Pathé-Frères, 1902-1905): Tableau Variation in the Early Cinema  Valentine Robert and Alain Boillat  3. La naissance, vie et passion du Christ (Gaumont, 1906): The Gospel According to Alice Guy  David J. Shepherd  4. La Vie et Passion de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ (Pathé-Frères, 1907): The Preservation and Transformation of Zecca's Passion  Dwight H. Friesen  5. Sidney Olcott's From the Manger to the Cross (Kalem, 1912): Out of Egypt and Palestine  W. Barnes Tatum  6. The Star of Bethlehem (Thanhouser, 1912): The Sacred Story from King Herod to the Crip  Terry Lindvall  7. The Shadow of Nazareth (Venus Features/Warner Features, 1913): The Hermeneutics of an Unauthorized Adaptation  Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch  8. La Vie et Passion de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ (Pathé-Frères 1913/24): Pathé's Inclination to Tell and Maître's Instinct to Show  Jo-Ann Brant  9. The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915) and Intolerance (Triangle/Wark 1916): Griffith's Talismanic Jesus  Richard Walsh 10. Christus (CINES, 1916): Italy's First Religious "Kolossal" by Antamoro and Salvatori  Giuseppe Pucci  11. Der Galiläer (Express-Film, 1921) and I.N.R.I. (Neumann-Film, 1923): The Silence of Jesus in the Early German Cinema  Reinhold Zwick  12. Leaves from Satan's Book (Nordisk, 1921) and Dreyer's Script <

O autorze

David J. Shepherd is Lecturer in the School of Religions, Peace Studies and Theology at Trinity College Dublin.