Screening Divinity - Lisa Maurice

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Résumé :
'What happens when theology meets the box office? Jesus, Zeus, Athena, Moses, Hera, Aphrodite and the Virgin Mary - no book has ever tackled a cast list like this before. In this unique study, Lisa Maurice deftly exposes the challenges and the compromises in representing divine figures whether they be Christian, Jewish or Pagan.' Alastair Blanshard, The University of Queensland Examines screen portrayals of the deities of Classical Mythology and the Bible How can we depict a deity on screen? How do we present the frequent immorality of the Greek gods while still maintaining an element of divinity? How do we interpret the deities of Judaism and Christianity in the modern Western world? From Le Tonnerre de Jupiter (1903) to The Ten Commandments (1956) to Troy, Fall of a City (2018), Lisa Maurice examines the whole history of screen portrayals of gods - covering Greek mythology, the Biblical God and Jesus - from the beginning of cinema to the present day. Engaging with recent scholarship on film, particularly film and theology as well as classical reception, this new work considers the presentation of these gods through examination of their physical and moral characteristics, as well as their interaction with the human world, against the background of the social contexts of each production. Lisa Maurice is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Cover image: Immortals, Tarsem Singh, 2011 ? Relativity Media Cover design: Stuart Dalziel [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-2573-5 Barcode

Biographie:

Lisa Maurice is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She has published on ancient education, Plautine comedy and her research now primarily focuses on classical reception. She is the author of The Teacher in Ancient Rome (Lexington, 2013) and of many articles, and is the editor of three volumes in the Brill Metaforms series on the reception of the ancient world in popular culture.

Sommaire:
Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations Chapter One: Screening Divinity: Introduction Chapter Two: Anthropomorphism Chapter Three: Physiology and the Physical Appearance of the Divine (1): The Patriarchal King Figure and the Devil Chapter Four: Physiology and the Physical Appearance of the Divine (2): Screening the Olympian Males and Jesus Chapter Five: Gendering the Divine (1): Greek Goddesses on Screen Chapter Six: Gendering the Divine (2): Holy Female Figures in the Judeo-Christian Film Chapter Seven: Human-Divine Interactions on Screen Chapter Eight: Blurring the Boundaries: Apotheoses and Deicides Postscript: Some Concluding Observations Filmography; Bibliography; Index