Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films

Download or read book Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films written by Adele Reinhartz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Movies which have drawn inspiration from the Bible, either directly or indirectly, have been extremely popular since the earliest days of cinema. Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films introduces a wide range of those movies, which are among the most important, critically-acclaimed and highest-grossing films of all time, including: The King of Kings Ben-Hur The Passion of the Christ Frankenstein Close Encounters of the Third Kind 2001: A Space Odyssey Apocalypse Now Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Written by a team of international scholars, the fifty entries discuss the Biblical stories, characters or motifs depicted in each film making this book the ideal guide for anyone interested in the long-standing relationship between the Bible and film.