1st Edition

The Silents of Jesus in the Cinema (1897-1927)

Edited By David Shepherd Copyright 2016
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

While Jesus has attracted the sporadic interest of film-makers since the epics of the Sixties, it is often forgotten that between the advent of motion pictures in the 1890s and the close of the "silent" era at the end of the 1920s, some of the longest, most expensive and most watched films on both sides of the Atlantic were focused on the Life and Passion of the Christ. Drawing upon rarely seen... Read more

Introduction  David J. Shepherd  1. The Passion of the Christ: a form, a genre, a discourse  André Gaudreault  2. La Vie et Passion de Jésus Christ (Pathé-Frères, 1902-1905): Tableau Variation in the Early Cinema  Valentine Robert and Alain Boillat  3. La naissance, vie et passion du Christ (Gaumont, 1906): The Gospel According to Alice Guy  David J. Shepherd  4. La Vie et Passion de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ (Pathé-Frères, 1907): The Preservation and Transformation of Zecca's Passion  Dwight H. Friesen  5. Sidney Olcott's From the Manger to the Cross (Kalem, 1912): Out of Egypt and Palestine  W. Barnes Tatum  6. The Star of Bethlehem (Thanhouser, 1912): The Sacred Story from King Herod to the Crip  Terry Lindvall  7. The Shadow of Nazareth (Venus Features/Warner Features, 1913): The Hermeneutics of an Unauthorized Adaptation  Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch  8. La Vie et Passion de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ (Pathé-Frères 1913/24): Pathé's Inclination to Tell and Maître's Instinct to Show  Jo-Ann Brant  9. The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915) and Intolerance (Triangle/Wark 1916): Griffith's Talismanic Jesus  Richard Walsh 10. Christus (CINES, 1916): Italy's First Religious "Kolossal" by Antamoro and Salvatori  Giuseppe Pucci  11. Der Galiläer (Express-Film, 1921) and I.N.R.I. (Neumann-Film, 1923): The Silence of Jesus in the Early German Cinema  Reinhold Zwick  12. Leaves from Satan's Book (Nordisk, 1921) and Dreyer's Script <

Biography

David J. Shepherd is Lecturer in the School of Religions, Peace Studies and Theology at Trinity College Dublin.