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9 Grand and Not-So-Grand Inquisitors of the Reagan Age
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Figures vi
- Acknowledgements viii
- Series Editors’ Preface ix
- Frontispiece xi
- Prologue: ‘Do You Enjoy Being a Symbol, Pontius?’ The Trial of Pontius Pilate and Governor Collins 1
- 1 Quod Scripsi Scripsi 13
- 2 The Silent Pilate 27
- 3 The Roman in the Living Room: Pilate on TV in the Early 1950s 44
- 4 Mrs Pilate: Claudia Procula and Clare Boothe Luce 65
- 5 Pilate in CinemaScope, or Notes on Roman Camp 91
- 6 Finding Meaning in the Middlebrow: Pilate in the 1960s 113
- 7 What Is Truth? Pilate as 1970s Moral Relativist 140
- 8 Michael Palin’s Accent in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, and a Few Others 172
- 9 Grand and Not-So-Grand Inquisitors of the Reagan Age 198
- 10 ‘We at War’: Pilate for the New Millennium 228
- Epilogue: A Time of Handwashing 257
- Works Cited 264
- Index 280
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Figures vi
- Acknowledgements viii
- Series Editors’ Preface ix
- Frontispiece xi
- Prologue: ‘Do You Enjoy Being a Symbol, Pontius?’ The Trial of Pontius Pilate and Governor Collins 1
- 1 Quod Scripsi Scripsi 13
- 2 The Silent Pilate 27
- 3 The Roman in the Living Room: Pilate on TV in the Early 1950s 44
- 4 Mrs Pilate: Claudia Procula and Clare Boothe Luce 65
- 5 Pilate in CinemaScope, or Notes on Roman Camp 91
- 6 Finding Meaning in the Middlebrow: Pilate in the 1960s 113
- 7 What Is Truth? Pilate as 1970s Moral Relativist 140
- 8 Michael Palin’s Accent in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, and a Few Others 172
- 9 Grand and Not-So-Grand Inquisitors of the Reagan Age 198
- 10 ‘We at War’: Pilate for the New Millennium 228
- Epilogue: A Time of Handwashing 257
- Works Cited 264
- Index 280
