RT Article
T1 The Historical Jesus and the Christ of Early Cinema: a Complicated Relationship
JF Journal for religion, film and media
VO 5
IS 1
SP 69
OP 85
A1 Facchini, Cristiana 1972-
LA English
PB Institut f. Fundamentaltheologie
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1667347144
AB When at the onset of the twentieth century, the influential German theologian Albert Schweitzer published a historiographical account of the ‘historical Jesus', a discrete number of silent films devoted to the life and death of Christ had already appeared in Europe and the United States. This article analyses the rise of early silent films about Christ against the backdrop of the debate enhanced by the rise of the ‘historical Jesus', presenting some of the relevant similarities and divergences that representations of the life of Jesus produced through different media and within an increasing relevance of mass culture.
K1 David Friedrich Strauss
K1 Ernest Renan
K1 Hermann Samuel Reimarus
K1 Historical Jesus
K1 Jewish Jesus
K1 Passion Play
K1 silent film
DO 10.25364/05.4:2019.1.5