The Bible in Motion [online] : a handbook of the Bible and Its reception in film / ed. Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch

Frontmatter Acknowledgements Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Abbreviations General Introduction: The Bible

I. Biblical Characters and Stories (Hebrew Bible) 1. In the Beginning: Adam and Eve in Film 2. Noah and the Flood: A Cinematic Deluge 3. It’s All in the Family: The Patriarchs of Genesis in Film 4. The Cinematic Moses 5. Samson and Delilah in Film 6. There Might Be Giants: King David on the Big (and Small) Screen 7. Esther in Film

II. Film Genres and Styles 8. Scripture on Silent Film 9. Film Noir and the Bible 10. The Bible Epic 11. Western Text(s): The Bible and the Movies of the Wild, Wild West 12. Mysteries of the Bible (Documentary) Revealed: The Bible in Popular Non‐Fiction and Documentary Film 13. From Skepticism to Piety: The Bible and Horror Films 14. “Moses’ DVD Collection”: The Bible and Science Fiction Film 15. The Word Made Gag: Biblical Reception in Film Comedy 16. Drawing (on) the Text: Biblical Reception in Animated Films 17. Anime and the Bible

III. Biblical Themes and Genres 18. God at the Movies 19. Satan in Cinema 20. Creation and Origins in Film 21. The Book of Job in the Movies: On Cinema’s Exploration of Theodicy and the Hiddenness of God 22. Lament in Film and Film as Lament 23. What Lies Beyond? Biblical Images of Death and Afterlife in Film 24. This Is the End: Apocalyptic Moments in Cinema

IV. Biblical Characters and Stories (New Testament) 25. Jesus and the Gospels at the Movies 26. Women in the Cinematic Gospels 27. Judas as Portrayed in Film 28. Jews and Judaism in New Testament Films 29. Paul and the Early Church in Film 30. Mythic Relevance of Revelation in Film

V. Cinemas and Auteurs 31. David Wark Griffith: Filming the Bible as the U.S. Story 32 Alice Guy Blaché and Gene Gauntier: Bringing New Perspectives to Film 33. Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates: Emergent History and a Gospel of Middle‐Class Liberation 34. Cecil B. DeMille: Hollywood’s Lay Preacher 35. Reframing Jesus: Dreyer’s Lifelong Passion 36. Luis Buñuel: Atheist by the Grace of God 37. Robert Bresson: Biblical Resonance from a Christian Atheist 38. Roberto Rossellini: From Spiritual Searcher to History’s Documentarian 39. Federico Fellini: From Catholicism to the Collective Unconscious 40. John Huston: The Atheistic Noah 41. Stanley Kubrick: Midrashic Movie Maker 42. In the Wake of the Bible: Krzysztof Kieślowski and the Residual Divine in Contemporary Life 43. Peter Weir: Man of Mystery, Mysticism, and the Mundane 44. Cheick Oumar Sissoko: West African Activist and Storyteller 45. Lee Chang-Dong: Exploring the Hidden Christ 46. Mark Dornford-May: Transposing the Classic 47. Serious Men: Scripture in the Coen Brothers Films 48. Liberative Visions: Biblical Reception in Third Cinema 49. The Reception of Biblical Films in India: Observations and a Case Study 50. “A Ram Butts His Broad Horns Again and Again against the Wall of the House”: The Binding Myth in Israeli Film

VI. Voices from the Margins 51. Judaism and Antisemitism in Bible Movies 52. Ethnicity and Biblical Reception in Eve and the Fire Horse 53. A Slave Narrative for the “Post-Racial” Obama Age 54. The Temptation of Noah: The Debate about Patriarchal Violence in Darren Aronofsky’s Noah 55. Gay Male Villains in Biblical Epic Films 56. Imperialism in New Testament Films

Film Index Scripture Index Subject Index

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