The Bible onscreen in the new millennium: New heart and new spirit
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University for the Creative Arts
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Clayton, W. 2020. BOS
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 978-1-5261-3657-2
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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https://research.uca.ac.uk/5025/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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3 - Film, Media and Expanded Animation
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- Additional information
- This volume, edited by Wickham Clayton, collects twelve essays which observe and analyze films based on Biblical events from 2004 onwards. Clayton divided the collection into four sections of three essays each which widely consider these films through different, but interlinked and progressively structured sections, which are: Production, Text/Context, Reception, and Culture/Representation.
In addition to being solely responsible for the proposal and editing of the volume Clayton contributed an introduction and further chapter. The introduction carries out the initial and new work linking the classical period to the post-2000 period. Clayton’s further chapter '”Can anything good come out of Southern California?”* (*hyperlink to John 1:46): the Christian critical reception of elliptical Jesus narratives’ then engages with fan studies and reception amongst film critics writing for overtly Christian publications to think about lesser-known films in this area.
Clayton's interest in the subject has come from a lifelong interest in both Biblical epics and some personal secondary interest in theology and religious thinking. He began the project by drafting and submitting an open Call for Papers on jiscmail servers, academic special interest groups, and on public social media platforms, simultaneously with individually targeting recognised voices in the fields of film and religious thought, Adele Reinhartz, Andrew B. R. Elliott, and Mikel J. Koven. The peer review process was carried out by Manchester University Press, with Clayton organising rewrites based on reviewer recommendations.
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