The roles of violence in recent Biblical cinema: The Passion, Noah, and Exodus: Gods and Kings

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dc.contributor.authorMcGeough, Kevin M.
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-03T22:19:56Z
dc.date.available2018-05-03T22:19:56Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionThis journal adheres to the gold standard of open access publishing--website.en_US
dc.description.abstractWhen The Passion was released, its extremely graphic violence horrified critics and scholars of religion although its success at the box office indicates that this, if anything, made the story of Jesus more appealing for viewers. Now that more time has passed and expectations surrounding levels of acceptable violence in cinema have changed, it is worth reconsidering how cinematic violence is used as reception strategy in Biblical cinema. Considering The Passion with more recent Biblical films,Noah and Exodus: Gods and Kings, it becomes apparent that violence is not only used to expand laconic Biblical narratives but to invest them with a sense of verism, to situate the stories in either specifically historical or generally mythological time, to elicit audience sympathy, to remake Biblical characters into figures of heroic masculinity, and to harmonize Biblical story-telling with cinematic genre conventions. Viewing violence from a genre perspective, this article explores how considering instances of cinematic violence as light or heavy helps to better understand the complexities of the roles violence plays in adapting Biblical stories for the screen.en_US
dc.description.peer-reviewYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationMcGeough, K.M. (2016). The roles of violence in recent Biblical cinema: The Passion, Noah, and Exodus: Gods and Kings. Journal of Religion and Film, 20 (2), article 35.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5094
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Nebraska at Omahaen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Geographyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Lethbridgeen_US
dc.subjectFilm violenceen_US
dc.subjectDivine violenceen_US
dc.subjectViolence in filmen_US
dc.subjectBiblical cinemaen_US
dc.subjectBiblical filmsen_US
dc.subjectBible filmsen_US
dc.subjectAudience responseen_US
dc.subjectHeroic masculinityen_US
dc.subject.lcshViolence in motion pictures
dc.subject.lcshNoah (Motion picture)
dc.subject.lcshNoah (Biblical figure)--In motion pictures
dc.subject.lcshExodus: gods and kings (Motion picture)
dc.subject.lcshExodus, The--Drama
dc.subject.lcshPassion of the Christ (Motion picture)
dc.subject.lcshJesus Christ--In motion pictures
dc.titleThe roles of violence in recent Biblical cinema: The Passion, Noah, and Exodus: Gods and Kingsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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