THE RELIGIOUS FILM

From The Gospel According to Matthew to Jesus Christ Superstar, from The Passion of Joan of Arc to The Last Temptation of Christ and Jesus of Montreal, The Religious Film captures the glory, gore, and centrality of this important genre.* A short, accessible introd uction to religious film, exploring the genre as spectacle, as musical, and as controversy * Examines the historical, cultural and c ritical background for religious films from the silent era through to the present day * Introduces the complexities and characterist ics of t...[Read more]