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Bible and cinema : fifty key films / edited by Adele Reinhartz.

Movies which have drawn inspiration from the Bible, either directly or indirectly, have been extremely popular since the earliest days of cinema. Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films introduces a wide range of those movies, which are among the most important, critically-acclaimed and highest-grossing f...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Reinhartz, Adele, 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
Series:Routledge key guides.
Subjects:
Bible films > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > Religious aspects.
Bible films.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • 2001 : a space odyssey (1968)
  • Aguirre : the wrath of God (Aguirre : der Zorn Gottes) (1972)
  • Apocalypse now (1979)
  • Babette's feast (1987)
  • Bagdad Cafe (1987)
  • Being there (1979)
  • Ben-Hur (1959)
  • Blade runner (1982)
  • Blue (1993)
  • Breaking the waves (1996)
  • Cape Fear (1991)
  • Children of men (2006)
  • Close encounters of the third kind (1977)
  • Cool hand Luke (1967)
  • Crimes and misdemeanors (1989)
  • David and Bathsheba (1951)
  • Dead man walking (1995)
  • Dogma (1999)
  • Frankenstein (1931)
  • From the manger to the cross (1912)
  • Godspell (1973)
  • The Gospel according to St. Matthew (1964)
  • Gran Torino (2008)
  • The greatest story ever told (1965)
  • The green pastures (1936)
  • Independence Day (1996)
  • Intolerance : love's truggle through the ages (1916)
  • Jesus Christ superstar (1973)
  • Jesus of Montreal (1989)
  • Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
  • Joan the maid : the battles/the prisons (1994)
  • Kagemusha (1980)
  • King of kigs (1961)
  • The king of kings (1927)
  • The last temptation of Christ (1988)
  • The life of Moses (1909-1910)
  • Monty Python's Lfe of Brian (1979)
  • The night of the hunter (1955)
  • One flew over the cuckoo's nest (1975)
  • The passion of the Christ (2004)
  • The prince of Egypt (1998)
  • The robe (1953)
  • Salome (1923, 1953)
  • Samson and Delilah (1949)
  • A serious man (2009)
  • Shane (1953)
  • Sling blade (1996)
  • Son of man (Jezile) (2006)
  • Superman (1978)
  • The ten commandments (1956)

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