Jesus and the Movies

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Taught by GTU/CARE. How do we picture Jesus? What makes a representation "believable"? Can a movie fulfill the expectations we bring to a Jesus story? What happens when a sacred text is translated into popular image? Does cinema bring something new to our understanding of Jesus? Combining biblical criticism, Christology, art history, and cinema studies, this course examines numerous clips from 19 Jesus movies made between 1912 and 2014, showing how perennial issues of interpretation and representation are both repeated and transformed by the medium of film.