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Re-viewing the Passion : Mel Gibson's film and its critics
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| NZ$ 40.00 each |
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| Author: Brent S Plate |
| Published by: Palgrave Macmillan |
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Record-setting ticket sales, heated controversy, sold-out viewings for church groups, and feuding critics. The Passion of the Christ is still going strong. Re-Viewing the Passion is the first collection that takes Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ as a focal point. Just in time for the DVD release, Re-Viewing the Passion will help all of us make sense of this blockbuster movie by offering a variety of perspectives on its significance. Thirteen contributors in diverse fields - biblical studies, Jewish studies, media studies, art history, and Christian theology - and from differing religious orientations - Jewish, Protestant, Catholic - contribute short and reader-friendly essays that explore the theological ideas, iconography, audience reception and historical and biblical accuracy of the film.
Contents: Introduction: Re-viewing as Remembering; S.B.Plate; Viewer's Guide; Jewish-Christian Relations: Reviewing Anti-Semitism; The
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Celluloid Saints : Images of Sanctity in Film -
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| Author: Theresa Sanders |
| Published by: Mercer University Press |
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Celluloid Saints looks at fundamental issues in the lives of saints and explores them in ways that are complex and nuanced, yet accessible. Topics such as martyrdom, miracles, evangelism, asceticism, saints in the Holocaust, and saintly mental illness have found diverse treatments in film. This book examines that diversity and explains some of the reasons for it.
The book is written with two goals in mind. The first is to give film viewers some background and context for evaluating what they see on screen. By and large, Hollywood is not conversant with theological issues; occasionally, movies reveal an appalling ignorance about religion. More often, however, the approach movies take is simply flat-footed and unsophisticated. Giving readers the tools they need to interpret and critique cinematic portrayals of sanctity is one goal of this book.
The second goal is to show students of theology how the ideas that they encounter in
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Christian Art : A very short introduction
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| Author: Beth Williamson (Lecturer in History of Art, University of Bristol) |
| Published by: Oxford University Press |
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This "Very Short Introduction" decodes the key themes, signs, and symbols found l in Christian art: the Eucharist, the image of the Crucifixion, the Virgin Mary, the Saints, Old and New Testament narrative imagery, and iconography. It also explores the theological and historical background of Christian imagery, from the devotional works of the Medieval and Renaissance periods, to the twenty first century. Williamson uses examples from, among others, Cimabue, Michelangelo, and Rosetti. She concludes by outlining the co-existence in contemporary "post-Christian" culture of the deliberately controversial works of artists such as Andres Serrano and Chris Ofili, alongside the consciously devotional works of those such as Eric Gill and Peter Blake.
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Painting the Word : Christian pictures and their meanings
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| Author: John Drury (Dean, Christ Church College, University of Oxford) |
| Published by: Yale University Press |
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In this beautifully written book, Drury, an Anglican priest and theologian, looks at religious paintings through the ages and presents them in a fresh way--as works filled with passion, stories, and meaning. The author brings his knowledge and experience as both priest and biblical scholar to Christian paintings and presents them to us afresh. He shows how the images in works by artists from Duccio to Velazquez have a universal quality that fills them with passion, stories, and meaning, not only for audiences of the past but also for viewers today.
100 illustrations, 70 in color.
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