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

by Tatum, W. Barnes

• ISBN13: 9780944344675
• ISBN10: 0944344674
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: POLEBRIDGE PRESS

Summary

"An exhaustively-researched viewers guide to movies about Jesus. Barnes Tatum guides the reader film-by-film from Sidney Olcott's silent classic From the Manager to the Cross through Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. With his experience as author, biblical scholar, and teacher on religion and film, he presents a unique look at Jesus films in all dimensions: as cinematic art, as literature, as biblical history and as theology."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii	(2)
PREFACE How to Use This Guide	ix
THE CINEMATIC JESUS Promise and Problem	1	(14)
THE CINEMATIC JESUS Jesus-story Films	15	(6)
SIDNEY OLCOTT
1 From the Manger to the Cross	21	(12)
D. W. GRIFFITH
2 Intolerance	33	(12)
CECIL B. DEMILLE
3 The King of Kings	45	(14)
WILLIAM WYLER
4 Ben-Hur (and others)	59	(16)
SAMUEL BRONSTON
5 King of Kings	75	(12)
GEORGE STEVENS
6 The Greatest Story Ever Told	87	(16)
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
7 The Gospel According to St. Matthew	103	(14)
NORMAN JEWISON
8 Jesus Christ Superstar	117	(18)
DAVID GREENE
Godspell
FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI
9 Jesus of Nazareth	135	(12)
JOHN HEYMAN
10 Jesus	147	(14)
MARTIN SCORSESE
11 The Last Temptation of Christ	161	(16)
DENYS ARCAND
12 Jesus of Montreal	177	(14)
THE CINEMATIC JESUS Retrospect and Prospect	191	(14)
APPENDIX A Checklist of Jesus-story Films	205	(4)
APPENDIX B Jesus-story Films and Christ-figure Films	209	(6)
Notes	215	(13)
Selected Bibliography	228	(7)
Appreciations and Credits	235	(3)
Filmography	238	(2)
Index	240