Jesus at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years - Softcover

Tatum, W. Barnes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0944344674 ISBN 13: 9780944344675

Publisher: Polebridge Pr Westar Inst, 2004

Synopsis

Since the earliest days of the movies more than a century ago, moviemakers have been intrigued by "the greatest story ever told." They have tried, with varying degrees of success, to capture the life of Jesus on film.

In Jesus at the Movies Barnes Tatum has created a fascinating and exhaustively-researched viewer's guide to the movies about Jesus. Tatum guides the reader film-by-film from Sidney Olcott's silent classic "From the Manger to the Cross" through Denis Arcand's award-winning "Jesus of Montreal" to the future of Jesus movies. With his experience as author, biblical scholar, and teacher on religion and film, he presents this unique look at Jesus films in all dimensions: as cinematic art, as literature, as biblical history and as theology.

About this title

About the Author:

W. Barnes Tatum is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Greensboro College and author of In Quest of Jesus: A Guidebook and John the Baptist and Jesus.

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These positive assessments of Ben-Hur and Barabbas by representatives of leading Protestant and Catholic periodicals suggest that the theological questions raised in the 1950s and 1960s about these alternative Jesus-story films differ significantly from the questions asked of Jesus films earlier in the century. Then the theological question often expressed itself in terms of their "reverence" for Jesus and his story. Both From the Manger to the Cross (1912) and The King of Kings (1927) received high marks for exhibiting such reverence. Now, especially with Ben-Hur (1959) and Barabbas (1962), the question had become not so much one of reverence for Jesus and his story but one of meaning: What's it all about?

About this edition

• Publisher: Polebridge Pr Westar Inst
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0944344674
• ISBN 13: 9780944344675
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256