Images of the word : Hollywood's Bible and beyond - Shepherd, David, 1972- (Atlanta, GA : Society of Biblical Literature, 2008)
Hollywood's Bible and beyond / David Shepherd -- Prolonging The Life of Moses: from spectacle to story in the early cinema / David Shepherd -- The big sleep: strategic ambiguity in Judges 4-5 and in classic film noir / Eric S. Christianson -- Perversions of food: Revelation and eXistenZ / Jan Willem van Henten -- Local heroes / George Aichele -- The apocalypse of Andersson: Biblical echoes in Songs from the second floor (1952) / Reinhold Zwick -- Barabbas rewrites the cross: parody or parable? / Richard Walsh -- Caiaphas on camera / Adele Reinhartz -- Camera as character in Philip Saville's The Gospel of John / Jo-Ann A. Brant -- Karunamayudu: seeing Christ anew in Indian cinema / Dwight H. Friesen -- "The beginning of a beautiful friendship": a response from film studies / Richard A. Blake, S.J. -- Decoding, meta-narrativizing, and making analogies: a response from Biblical studies / Rosamond C. Rodman.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-223) and filmography (p. 225-226).
Keywords: Bible films -- History and criticism; Bible -- In motion pictures