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ISBN(s): 9780415741699, 0415741696
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Year: 2016
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415741696 
ISBN 13: 9780415741699
Author: David Shepherd

While Jesus has attracted the sporadic interest of film-makers since the epics of the Sixties, it is often forgotten that between the advent of motion pictures in the 1890s and the close of the “silent” era at the end of the 1920s, some of the longest, most expensive and most watched films on both sides of the Atlantic were focused on the Life and Passion of the Christ. Drawing upon rarely seen archival footage and the work of both the era’s most important directors (e.g. Alice Guy, Ferdinand Zecca, Sidney Olcott, D.W. Griffith, Carl Dreyer, and C.B. DeMille) and others who have been all but forgotten, this collection of essays offers a representative survey of the Silents of Jesus, illustrating the ways in which the earliest films and those which followed were influenced by a multiplicity of factors. Written by leading scholars in biblical and early film studies this collection explores the ways in which the Silents of Jesus were shaped not only by the performing and visual arts of the nineteenth century and the technological challenges and opportunities of a new medium and industry, but also by the artistic, theological and ideological predilections of studios and directors, and the expectations of audiences as the genre evolved. Taken together, the essays collected here offer a seminal treatment of the genesis and early evolution of the cinematic Jesus.

The Silents of Jesus in the Cinema 1897 1927 1st Table of contents:

1. The Passion of Christ: A Form, a Genre, a Discourse

  • Notes

2. La Vie et Passion de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ (Pathé-Frères, 1902–05):
Tableau Variation in the Early Cinema

  • The Historian of (Early) Cinema and the Philologist

  • Dating and Description

  • Material Investigation

  • Published and Catalogued Versions

  • The Tableau Aesthetic

  • The Apotheosis of the Tableaux Vivants

  • Notes

3. La naissance, la vie et la mort du Christ (Gaumont, 1906):
The Gospel According to Alice Guy

  • Guy, Tissot and “The Fine Drama of the Passion”

  • The Women of Guy’s Gospel

  • A Gospel for Women?

  • Notes

4. La Vie et Passion de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ (Pathé-Frères, 1907):
The Preservation and Transformation of Zecca’s Passion

  • A Case for Multiple Originals

  • The Film in Context: Pathé in America

  • The Film in Comparison: Zecca and Guy

  • Pathé’s Strategic Passion: Transformation and Preservation

  • Notes

5. Sidney Olcott’s From the Manger to the Cross (Kalem, 1912):
Out of Egypt and Palestine

  • The Making of the Film

  • The Jesus Story as Silent Pageant

  • The Jesus Character as a Man of Good Deeds

  • The Public Response to the Film

  • Notes

6. The Star of Bethlehem (Thanhouser, 1912):
The Sacred Story from King Herod to the Crib

  • The Appearance of the Star

  • The Stars of Hollywood

  • Shooting at the Star

  • Defending the Star

  • The Genesis of the Church Market

  • The Twilight of the Star

  • Notes

7. The Shadow of Nazareth (Venus Features/Warner Features, 1913):
The Hermeneutics of an Unauthorized Adaptation

  • The Gospel Sources

  • Corelli’s Novel (1893)

  • The Film (1913)

  • Conclusion

  • Notes

8. La Vie et Passion de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ (Pathé-Frères, 1913/14):
Pathé’s Inclination to Tell and Maître’s Instinct to Show

  • Pathé’s Passion

  • Maître’s Film

  • Conclusion

  • Notes

9. The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915) and Intolerance (Triangle/Wark, 1916):
Griffith’s Talismanic Jesus

  • Introduction

  • The Jesus Fragments in Intolerance

  • Jesus in the Birth of a Nation

  • A Similar Deployment of Jesus in Civilization (1916)

  • Jesus as Cinematic Talisman

  • Notes

10. Christus (Cines, 1916):
Italy’s First Religious “Kolossal” by Antamoro and Salvatori

  • The Project

  • The Film

  • The Characters

  • The Reception

  • Notes

11. Der Galiläer (Express-Film, 1921) and I.N.R.I. (Neumann-Film, 1923):
The Silence of Jesus in the German Cinema

  • Der Galiläer (Express-Film, 1921): From Stage to Screen

  • The Image of Jesus Christ

  • A Man of Few Words

  • A Man of Miraculous Deeds

  • Who Do They Say I Am?

  • I.N.R.I. (Neumann-Film, 1923): From Page to Screen

  • The Image of Jesus Christ

  • The Appearance of Christ

  • A Man of Few Words

  • A Man of Deeds

  • A Man in the Eyes of Others

  • Caiaphas and the High Council

  • Pilate and the Romans

  • Judas

  • Mary, the Mother

  • Mary Magdalene

  • End Titles

  • Appendix I: Scene List of Der Galiläer (1921)

  • Appendix II: Scene Lists from I.N.R.I.

    • A. The I.N.R.I.-Fragment in the Bundesarchiv/Filmarchiv (Berlin)

    • B. The I.N.R.I. Fragment in the Cineteca del Friuli (Gemona)

  • Notes

12. Leaves from Satan’s Book (Nordisk, 1921) and Dreyer’s Script Jesus of Nazareth (1950):
The Jewishness of Jesus

  • Leaves from Satan’s Book (1921)

  • Jesus of Nazareth (1950)

  • To Conclude

  • Notes

13. The King of Kings (DeMille Pictures, 1927):
The Body and the Word on Film

  • Texting the Image

  • DeMille’s The King of Kings

  • DeMille’s Authorized Version

  • DeMille’s “Biblical” Intertitles

  • Representing the Body and Word in The King of Kings

  • Simon of Cyrene and the Via Dolorosa

  • Conclusion

  • Notes

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