Research Catalog

Title

Re-viewing The passion : Mel Gibson's film and its critics / edited by S. Brent Plate.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

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Additional Authors

Plate, S. Brent, 1966-

Description

xxiii, 198 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Alternative Title

Reviewing The passion

Subject

• Passion of the Christ (Motion picture)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : re-viewing as remembering / S. Brent Plate -- Viewer's guide to this book and to Mel Gibson's : The passion of the Christ -- Pt. I. Jewish-Christian relations : reviewing anti-Semitism -- 1. The medieval passion play revisited / Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer -- 2. The passion of the Christ and the passion of the Jews : Mel Gibson's film in light of Jewish-Christian relations / Yaakov Ariel -- 3. Can there be Jewish-Christian dialogue after The passion? / Steven Leonard Jacobs -- Pt. II. Christian-Christian relations : reviewing The passion in Christian theological history -- 4. The passion as dynamic icon : a theological reflection / Robert K. Johnston -- 5. Celluloid synoptics : viewing the gospels of Marty and Mel together / Darren J. N. Middleton -- Pt. III. Visual theologies and verbal theologies : reviewing the image of Jesus -- 6. Catholic visual piety and The passion of the Christ / David Morgan -- 7. On seeing The passion : is there a painting in this film? : or is this film a painting? / Diane Apostolos-Cappadone -- 8. "Passion"-ate women : the female presence in The passion of the Christ / Gaye W. Ortiz -- 9. Come and see : how movies encourage us to look at (and with) Jesus / Peter T. Chattaway -- Pt. IV. Media approaches to The passion : personal devotion and public discourse -- 10. Mel Gibson, the scribes, and the Pharisees / Amy-Jill Levine -- 11. Truth at last : evangelical communities embrace The passion of the Christ / Neal King -- 12. The audience responds to the passion of the Christ / Robert H. Woods, Michael C. Jindra and Jason D. Baker -- Appendix. Criteria for the evaluation of dramatizations of the passion (1988) / Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

ISBN

• 1403967997
• 1403968004 (pbk.)

LCCN

2004057277

OCLC

• ocm56324761
• SCSB-5116001

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries