Maciak The Disappearing Christ

Secularism in the Silent Era
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54700-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Phillip Maciak examines filmic depictions of Jesus to argue that cinema developed as a model technology of secularism, training viewers for belief in a secular age. Cinematic depictions of an appearing and disappearing Christ became a powerful vehicle for Americans to navigate a rapidly modernizing society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maciak, Phil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Religiöse Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Disappearing Christ and Other Stories
1. A Rare and Wonderful Sight: Ben-Hur’s Historicism
2. Looking Sideways: Media Theories of Jesus Christ
3. Tricks and Actualities: The Passion Play Film and the Cinema of Attractions
4. The Double Life of Superimposition: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Christ Cycle
Coda: Resurrectionists: Toward a Post-Cinematic Postsecular
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maciak Phil:

Phil Maciak (University of Pennsylvania, PhD) is an assistant professor at LSU in the English Department and Program in Film and Media Arts. His scholarly writing has appeared in PMLA, J19, Film Quarterly, In Media Res, and Adaptation. He is the television editor for Los Angeles Review of Books and his writing on television and film has been published in Slate, The New Republic, and elsewhere.Phillip Maciak teaches in English and American culture studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He is an editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.