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Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th-Century Fiction and Film

Author : Graham Holderness
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472573339

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Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th-Century Fiction and Film by Graham Holderness Pdf

At the heart of Christian theology lies a paradox unintelligible to other religions and to secular humanism: that in the person of Jesus, God became man, and suffered on the cross to effect humanity's salvation. In his dual nature as mortal and divinity, and unlike the impassable God of other monotheisms, Christ thus became accessible to artistic representation. Hence the figure of Jesus has haunted and compelled the imagination of artists and writers for 2,000 years. This was never more so than in the 20th Century, in a supposedly secular age, when the Jesus of popular fiction and film became perhaps more familiar than the Christ of the New Testament. In Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th Century Fiction and Film Graham Holderness explores how writers and film-makers have sought to recreate Christ in work as diverse as Anthony Burgess's Man of Nazareth and Jim Crace's Quarantine, to Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ and Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ. These works are set within a longer and broader history of 'Jesus novels' and 'Jesus films', a lineage traced back to Ernest Renan and George Moore, and explored both for their reflections of contemporary Christological debates, and their positive contributions to Christian theology. In its final chapter, the book draws on the insights of this tradition of Christological representation to creatively construct a new life of Christ, an original work of theological fiction that both subsumes the history of the form, and offers a startlingly new perspective on the biography of Christ.

Sacramental Life Vol 29.4

Author : Connie Cruze Bull,Michael Schulz,Alfred Fedak,Heather Josselyn-Cranson,Christopher Montgomery,Michelle Bodle
Publisher : OSL Publications
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sacramental Life Vol 29.4 by Connie Cruze Bull,Michael Schulz,Alfred Fedak,Heather Josselyn-Cranson,Christopher Montgomery,Michelle Bodle Pdf

Sacramental Life Volume 29.4 (Advent 2018) Founded in 1988, Sacramental Life is one of two journals published by the Order of Saint Luke (OSL Publications). It focuses on the emerging and historical practices of Christian worship. Print distribution is to the members of the Order globally, as well as to a number of theology departments and seminary libraries in the United States.

The Wisdom and Power of the Cross

Author : Richard Viladesau
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780197516522

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The Wisdom and Power of the Cross by Richard Viladesau Pdf

"This volume is the fifth in a series dealing with the passion and death of Christ - symbolized by "the cross" -- in Christian theology and the arts. It examines the way the passion of Christ has been thought about by theologians and portrayed by artists and musicians in the modern and contemporary world. It examines the traditional approaches to soteriology in contrast to revisionist theologies that take up the challenge of understanding the meaning of the cross in the light of critical historical studies and modern science"--

Jesus, the Gospels, and Cinematic Imagination

Author : Richard Walsh,Jeffrey L. Staley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567693853

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Jesus, the Gospels, and Cinematic Imagination by Richard Walsh,Jeffrey L. Staley Pdf

Jesus films arose with cinema itself. Richard Walsh and Jeffrey L. Staley introduce students to these films with a general overview of the Jesus film tradition and with specific analyses of 22 of its most influential exemplars, stretching from La vie du Christ (1906) to Mary Magdalene (2018). The introduction to each film includes discussion of plot, characters, visuals, appeal to authority, and cultural location as well as consideration of the director's (and/or other filmmakers') achievements and style. Several film chapters end with reflections on problematic issues bedeviling the tradition, such as cultural imperialism and patriarchy. To assist teachers and researchers, each chapter includes a listing of DVD chapters and the approximate “time” (for both DVDs and streaming platforms) at which key film moments occur. The book also includes a Gospels Harmony cataloging the time at which key gospel incidents appear in these films. Extensive endnotes point readers to other important work on the tradition and specific films. While the authors strive to set the Jesus film tradition within cinema and its interpretation, the DVD/streaming listing and the Gospels Harmony facilitate the comparison of these films to gospel interpretation and the Jesus tradition.

Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare

Author : Christy Desmet,Natalie Loper,Jim Casey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319633008

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Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare by Christy Desmet,Natalie Loper,Jim Casey Pdf

This essay collection addresses the paradox that something may at once “be” and “not be” Shakespeare. This phenomenon can be a matter of perception rather than authorial intention: audiences may detect Shakespeare where the author disclaims him or have difficulty finding him where he is named. Douglas Lanier’s “Shakespearean rhizome,” which co-opts Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of artistic relations as rhizomes (a spreading, growing network that sprawls horizontally to defy hierarchies of origin and influence) is fundamental to this exploration. Essays discuss the fine line between “Shakespeare” and “not Shakespeare” through a number of critical lenses—networks and pastiches, memes and echoes, texts and paratexts, celebrities and afterlives, accidents and intertexts—and include a wide range of examples: canonical plays by Shakespeare, historical figures, celebrities, television performances and adaptations, comics, anime appropriations, science fiction novels, blockbuster films, gangster films, Shakesploitation and teen films, foreign language films, and non-Shakespearean classic films.

Shakespeare and Biography

Author : Katherine Scheil,Graham Holderness
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789209051

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Shakespeare and Biography by Katherine Scheil,Graham Holderness Pdf

From Shakespeare’s religion to his wife to his competitors in the world of early modern theatre, biographers have approached the question of the Bard’s life from numerous angles. Shakespeare & Biography offers a fresh look at the biographical questions connected with the famous playwright’s life, through essays and reflections written by prominent international scholars and biographers.

Shakespeare and Money

Author : Graham Holderness
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789206739

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Shakespeare and Money by Graham Holderness Pdf

Though better known for his literary merits, Shakespeare made money, wrote about money and enabled money-making by countless others in his name. With chapters by leading scholars on the economic, financial and commercial ramifications of his work, this multifaceted volume connects the Bard to both early modern and contemporary economic conditions, revealing Shakespeare to have been a serious economist in his own right.

Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004453821

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Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture by Anonim Pdf

Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture: Between Cultural Memory and Transmediality analyzes the presence and function of traces of religious narratives in contemporary western culture, from the perspective of cultural memory studies and the transmedial study of narrative and art.

The Shakespeare User

Author : Valerie M. Fazel,Louise Geddes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319610153

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The Shakespeare User by Valerie M. Fazel,Louise Geddes Pdf

This innovative collection explores uses of Shakespeare in a wide variety of 21st century contexts, including business manuals, non-literary scholarship, database aggregation, social media, gaming, and creative criticism. Essays in this volume demonstrate that users’ critical and creative uses of the dramatist’s works position contemporary issues of race, power, identity, and authority in new networks that redefine Shakespeare and reconceptualize the ways in which he is processed in both scholarly and popular culture. While The Shakespeare User contributes to the burgeoning corpus of critical works on digital and Internet Shakespeares, this volume looks beyond the study of Shakespeare artifacts to the system of use and users that constitute the Shakespeare network. This reticular understanding of Shakespeare use expands scholarly forays into non-academic practices, digital discourse communities, and creative critical works manifest via YouTube, Twitter, blogs, databases, websites, and popular fiction.

Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture

Author : Suzanne Hobson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192846471

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Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture by Suzanne Hobson Pdf

This volume offers a new account of the relationship between literary and secularist scenes of writing in interwar Britain. Organized secularism has sometimes been seen as a phenomenon that lived and died with the nineteenth century. But associations such as the National Secular Society and the Rationalist Press Association survived into the twentieth and found new purpose in the promotion and publishing of serious literature. This book assembles a group of literary figures whose work was recommended as being of particular interest to the unbelieving readership targeted by these organisations. Some, including Vernon Lee, H.G. Wells, Naomi Mitchison, and K.S. Bhat, were members or friends of the R.P.A.; others, such as Mary Butts, were sceptical but nonetheless registered its importance in their work; a third group, including D.H. Lawrence and George Moore, wrote in ways seen as sympathetic to the Rationalist cause. All of these writers produced fiction that was experimental in form and, though few of them could be described as modernist, they shared with modernist writers a will to innovate. This book explores how Rationalist ideas were adapted and transformed by these experiments, focusing in particular on the modifications required to accommodate the strong mode of unbelief associated with British secularism to the notional mode of belief usually solicited by fiction. Whereas modernism is often understood as the literature for a secular age, Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture looks elsewhere to find a literature that draws more directly on secularism for its aesthetics and its ethics.

The British Jesus, 1850-1970

Author : Meredith Veldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000565959

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The British Jesus, 1850-1970 by Meredith Veldman Pdf

The British Jesus focuses on the Jesus of the religious culture dominant in Britain from the 1850s through the 1950s, the popular Christian culture shared by not only church, kirk, and chapel goers, but also the growing numbers of Britons who rarely or only episodically entered a house of worship. An essay in intellectual as well as cultural history, this book illumines the interplay between and among British New Testament scholarship, institutional Christianity, and the wider Protestant culture. The scholars who mapped and led the uniquely British quest for the historical Jesus in the first half of the twentieth century were active participants in efforts to replace the popular image of “Jesus in a white nightie” with a stronger figure, and so, they hoped, to preserve Britain’s Christian identity. They failed. By exploring that failure, and more broadly, by examining the relations and exchanges between popular, artistic, and scholarly portrayals of Jesus, this book highlights the continuity and the conservatism of Britain’s popular Christianity through a century of religious and cultural transformation. Exploring depictions of Jesus from over more than one hundred years, this book is a crucial resource for scholars of British Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Scorsese and Religion

Author : Christopher B. Barnett,Clark J. Elliston
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004411401

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Scorsese and Religion by Christopher B. Barnett,Clark J. Elliston Pdf

Scorsese and Religion explores and analyzes the religious vision of filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s oeuvre, showing that Scorsese cannot be properly understood without reflecting on the ways that his religious interests are expressed in and through his art.

Jesus in Twentieth Century Literature, Art, and Movies

Author : Paul C. Burns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441105035

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Jesus in Twentieth Century Literature, Art, and Movies by Paul C. Burns Pdf

In the twentieth century a number of novelists, artists, and filmmakers, resurrected the life of Jesus genre made so popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Renan, Strauss, and others. In addition, novelists Norman Mailer, Jose Saramago, and Ricci have written their own "gospels." Burns' collection--taken from a conference at a 2004 regional SBL meeting--explores the ways in which these portraits of Jesus continue to fulfill the familiar observation that people tend to depict Jesus in their own image. In several of the portraits of Jesus, the artists offer a creative response to the realities of the human condition of our time.

Black Men Teaching in Urban Schools

Author : Edward Brockenbrough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317448501

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Black Men Teaching in Urban Schools by Edward Brockenbrough Pdf

This volume follows eleven Black male teachers from an urban, predominantly Black school district to reveal a complex set of identity politics and power dynamics that complicate these teachers’ relationships with students and fellow educators. It provides new and important insights into what it means to be a Black male teacher and suggests strategies for school districts, teacher preparation programs, researchers and other stakeholders to rethink why and how we recruit and train Black male teachers for urban K-12 classrooms.

The Figure of Christ in the Long Nineteenth Century

Author : Elizabeth Ludlow
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030400828

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The Figure of Christ in the Long Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Ludlow Pdf

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the variety of ways in which the interface between understanding the figure of Christ, the place of the cross, and the contours of lived experience, was articulated through the long nineteenth century. Collectively, the chapters respond to the theological turn in postmodern thought by asking vital questions about the way in which representations of Christ shape understandings of personhood and of the divine.