Review of The Silents of Jesus in the Cinema (1897-1927) by David J. Shepherd

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Abstract

This painstakingly researched textbook sits comfortably alongside Divine Images: A History of Jesus on the Screen (Roy Kinnard and Tim Davis,1992), Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ Figures in Film (Lloyd Baugh,1997), Savior on the Silver Screen (Richard C. Stern, Clayton N. Jeffordand Guerric DeBona, 1999), Jesus of Hollywood (Adele Reinhartz, 2006),Jesus at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years and Beyond, 3rd ed.(W. Barnes Tatum, 2012), Screen Jesus: Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film (Peter Malone, 2012), T&T Clark Handbook of Jesus and Film(Richard Walsh, 2021), Jesus Christ Movie Star (Phil Hall, 2021), and Jesus, the Gospels, and Cinematic Imagination: Introducing Jesus Movies,Christ Films, and the Messiah in Motion (Richard Walsh and Jeffrey L.Staley, 2021) amongst many others.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)373-375
Number of pages3
JournalJournal for the Academic Study of Religion
Volume35
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 2022

Keywords

  • book review
  • silent Jesus genre
  • Religion and film

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