The Passion Story: From Visual Representation to Social Drama

by Kupfer, Marcia A.

• ISBN13: 9780271033075
• ISBN10: 027103307X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-05
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

Summary

"The incidence of Passion imagery in diverse media is fundamental to the histories of Christian piety, church politics, and art in European and American societies. At the same time, the visualization and reenactment of Christ's suffering has for centuries been the principal engine generating popular perceptions of Jews and Judaism. The essays collected in this book, written by eminent scholars with an eye toward the nonspecialist reader, broadly survey the depiction and dramatization of the Passion and consider the significance of this representational focus for both Christians and Jews. This anthology provides a unique, multifaceted overview of a subject of enduring importance in today's religiously pluralistic societies."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Narrative Transformations, Pictorial Elaborations
Inventing the Passion in the Late Middle Ages	p. 23
The Passion of Mary: The Virgin and the Jews in Medieval Culture	p. 53
The Conflicted Representation of Judaism in Italian Renaissance Images of Christ's Life and Passion	p. 67
Ex libera meditatione: Visualizing the Sacrificial Christ in Jeronimo Nadal's Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels	p. 91
Popular Spectacle, Mass Consumption
Coups de Theatre and the Passion for Vengeance	p. 121
Images of the Passion and the History of Protestant Visual Piety in America	p. 131
Realizing the Passion on Screen	p. 147
Jesus of Hollywood	p. 165
Two Thousand Years of Storytelling About Jesus: How Faithful is Pasolini's Gospel to Matthew's Gospel?	p. 179
Jewish Perspectives
Jewish Responses to the Passion Narratives	p. 191
Barnett Newman's Passion	p. 203
Epilogue: A Brief History of Jewish Enmity	p. 217
Notes	p. 235
List of Contributors	p. 265
Index	p. 267
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