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This engaging study surveys the religious element in the broadest spectrum of film comedy. A representative chapter finds religious redemption and the blessed hero in early Chaplin films and in Home Alone (1990). Heroes of adventure comedies and the picaresque personify the joy of life?s challenges and tribulations. In romantic and screwball comedies traditional plots reassert the power of love and community and the divinity in resisting unbridled temptation. In chapter 6, the authors write that musicals are the ?sub-genre of joy and bliss? implicit in the utopian vision of romantic unions, countering the individual?s dread isolation?a theme developed more somberly in the chapter on family comedies. The authors also propose two new subgenres, "film blanc comedy, " driven by angels, and "clergy comedy, " propelled by angels' human agents. There are brisk discussions of black comedy as reductio ad absurdum, the multilevel or ensemble comedy, mockumentary and the broader genres of satire, and parody and the Dionysian/transgressive. The authors move easily between the religious implications of popular films and the comic element in the Bible stories. The result is manna for new thought.
Motion pictures --- Comedy films --- Religion in motion pictures. --- Cinéma --- Films comiques --- Religion au cinéma --- Religious aspects. --- History and criticism. --- Aspect religieux --- Histoire et critique
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This two-part volume contains a comprehensive collection of original studies by well-known scholars focusing on the Bible’s wide-ranging reception in world cinema. It is organized into sections examining the rich cinematic afterlives of selected characters from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament; considering issues of biblical reception across a wide array of film genres, ranging from noir to anime; featuring directors, from Lee Chang-dong to the Coen brothers, whose body of work reveals an enduring fascination with biblical texts and motifs; and offering topical essays on cinema’s treatment of selected biblical themes (e.g., lament, apocalyptic), particular interpretive lenses (e.g., feminist interpretation, queer theory), and windows into biblical reception in a variety of world cinemas (e.g., Indian, Israeli, and Third Cinema). This handbook is intended for scholars of the Bible, religion, and film as well as for a wider general audience.
Bible films --- Motion pictures --- Films bibliques --- Cinéma --- History and criticism --- Religious aspects. --- Histoire et critique --- Aspect religieux --- History and criticism. --- Bible --- In motion pictures --- Cinéma --- Religion and motion pictures --- Biblical films --- Religious films --- Bible films - History and criticism. --- Biblical Studies. --- Cinema. --- Reception History. --- Religion in Culture.
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