The Bible Onscreen in the New Millennium

Wickham Clayton is Lecturer in Film Production at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham -- .

Introduction – Wickham Clayton
Part I: Producing biblical film and television
1 Battles over the biblical epic: Hollywood, Christians and the American Culture Wars – Karen Patricia Heath
2 Depicting ‘biblical’ narratives: a test case on Noah – Peter Phillips
3 Special effects and CGI in the biblical epic film – Andrew B. R. Elliott
4 The phenomenon of biblical telenovelas in Brazil and Latin America – Clarice Greco, Mariana Marques de Lima and Tissiana Nogueira Pereira

Part II: Modern narratives and contexts in adapting the Bible
5 Mythic cinema and the contemporary biblical epic – Mikel J. Koven
6 The Nativity reborn: genre and the birth and childhood of Jesus – Matthew Page
7 Convince me: conversion narratives in the modern biblical epic – Chris Davies

Part III: Critical readings and receptions
8 Controversy and the ‘Culture War’: exploring tensions between the secular and the sacred in Noah, the ‘least biblical biblical movie ever’ – Becky Bartlett
9 ‘Can anything good come out of Southern California?’* (*hyperlink to John 1:46): the Christian critical reception of elliptical Jesus narratives – Wickham Clayton
10 Examining the digital religion paradigm: a mixed-method analysis of online community perception of epic biblical movies – Gregory P. Perreault and Thomas S. Mueller

Part IV: Culture and representation
11 The devil and the Culture Wars: demonising controversy in The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ – Karra Shimabukuro
12 Ben-Her(?): soft stardom, melodrama and the critique of epic masculinity in Ben-Hur (2016) – Thomas J. West III
13 The biblical-trial film: social contexts in L’Inchiesta and Risen – Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar
14 ‘Squint against the grandeur’: iconoclasm and film genre in The Passion of the Christ and Hail, Caesar! – Martin Stollery

Filmography
Index -- .