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Hollywood biblical epics : Camp Spectacle and Queer Style from the silent era to the modern day

Title: Hollywood biblical epics : Camp Spectacle and Queer Style from the silent era to the modern day / Richard Lindsay.
Author: Lindsay, Richard A.
Publication: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2015]

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Description

xxxv, 193 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-183) and index.

Contents

Introduction: "It is as it was" -- Part 1. The scripturalization of the King of Kings and The passion of the Christ -- The camp King of kings and the monstrous passion -- Part 2. The orgies of God: anti-communist gospel, the gospel of the production code, and the gospel of spectacle in postwar biblical films -- "You're not a well woman, honey": effeminate villains in biblical films -- Ben-Hur and the beefcake bible -- Afterword.

Call Number

MFL 15-4639

ISBN

9781440837524 (hardcover : alk. paper)
144083752X (hardcover : alk. paper)
1440837538 (ebook)
9781440837531 (ebook)
9781440837531 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015005478

OCLC

895731356

Author

Lindsay, Richard A., author.

Title

Hollywood biblical epics : Camp Spectacle and Queer Style from the silent era to the modern day / Richard Lindsay.

Publisher

Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-183) and index.

Research Call Number

MFL 15-4639

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