Bible and cinema : fifty key films
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Bible and cinema : fifty key films
(Routledge key guides)
Routledge, 2013
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Miyagi
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Part One: Bible Films 2. Part Two: Bible-Related Films Bibliography
by "Nielsen BookData"