11. Western Text(s): The Bible and the Movies of the Wild, Wild West

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Illustrations XI
5. List of Contributors XIII
6. Abbreviations XVII
7. General Introduction: The Bible 1
8. I. Biblical Characters and Stories (Hebrew Bible)
9. 1. In the Beginning: Adam and Eve in Film 17
10. 2. Noah and the Flood: A Cinematic Deluge 35
11. 3. It’s All in the Family: The Patriarchs of Genesis in Film 51
12. 4. The Cinematic Moses 65
13. 5. Samson and Delilah in Film 83
14. 6. There Might Be Giants: King David on the Big (and Small) Screen 101
15. 7. Esther in Film 119
16. II. Film Genres and Styles
17. 8. Scripture on Silent Film 139
18. 9. Film Noir and the Bible 161
19. 10. The Bible Epic 175
20. 11. Western Text(s): The Bible and the Movies of the Wild, Wild West 193
21. 12. Mysteries of the Bible (Documentary) Revealed: The Bible in Popular Non‐Fiction and Documentary Film 209
22. 13. From Skepticism to Piety: The Bible and Horror Films 223
23. 14. “Moses’ DVD Collection”: The Bible and Science Fiction Film 237
24. 15. The Word Made Gag: Biblical Reception in Film Comedy 253
25. 16. Drawing (on) the Text: Biblical Reception in Animated Films 267
26. 17. Anime and the Bible 285
27. III. Biblical Themes and Genres
28. 18. God at the Movies 299
29. 19. Satan in Cinema 327
30. 20. Creation and Origins in Film 341
31. 21. The Book of Job in the Movies: On Cinema’s Exploration of Theodicy and the Hiddenness of God 355
32. 22. Lament in Film and Film as Lament 379
33. 23. What Lies Beyond? Biblical Images of Death and Afterlife in Film 391
34. 24. This Is the End: Apocalyptic Moments in Cinema 405
35. IV. Biblical Characters and Stories (New Testament)
36. 25. Jesus and the Gospels at the Movies 419
37. 26. Women in the Cinematic Gospels 449
38. 27. Judas as Portrayed in Film 463
39. 28. Jews and Judaism in New Testament Films 483
40. 29. Paul and the Early Church in Film 497
41. 30. Mythic Relevance of Revelation in Film 517
42. V. Cinemas and Auteurs
43. 31. David Wark Griffith: Filming the Bible as the U.S. Story 535
44. 32 Alice Guy Blaché and Gene Gauntier: Bringing New Perspectives to Film 543
45. 33. Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates: Emergent History and a Gospel of Middle‐Class Liberation 557
46. 34. Cecil B. DeMille: Hollywood’s Lay Preacher 569
47. 35. Reframing Jesus: Dreyer’s Lifelong Passion 587
48. 36. Luis Buñuel: Atheist by the Grace of God 599
49. 37. Robert Bresson: Biblical Resonance from a Christian Atheist 609
50. 38. Roberto Rossellini: From Spiritual Searcher to History’s Documentarian 623
51. 39. Federico Fellini: From Catholicism to the Collective Unconscious 635
52. 40. John Huston: The Atheistic Noah 649
53. 41. Stanley Kubrick: Midrashic Movie Maker 663
54. 42. In the Wake of the Bible: Krzysztof Kieślowski and the Residual Divine in Contemporary Life 675
55. 43. Peter Weir: Man of Mystery, Mysticism, and the Mundane 691
56. 44. Cheick Oumar Sissoko: West African Activist and Storyteller 701
57. 45. Lee Chang-Dong: Exploring the Hidden Christ 713
58. 46. Mark Dornford-May: Transposing the Classic 721
59. 47. Serious Men: Scripture in the Coen Brothers Films 729
60. 48. Liberative Visions: Biblical Reception in Third Cinema 739
61. 49. The Reception of Biblical Films in India: Observations and a Case Study 751
62. 50. “A Ram Butts His Broad Horns Again and Again against the Wall of the House”: The Binding Myth in Israeli Film 763
63. VI. Voices from the Margins
64. 51. Judaism and Antisemitism in Bible Movies 777
65. 52. Ethnicity and Biblical Reception in Eve and the Fire Horse 793
66. 53. A Slave Narrative for the “Post-Racial” Obama Age 807
67. 54. The Temptation of Noah: The Debate about Patriarchal Violence in Darren Aronofsky’s Noah 825
68. 55. Gay Male Villains in Biblical Epic Films 843
69. 56. Imperialism in New Testament Films 853
70. Film Index 867
71. Scripture Index 899
72. Subject Index 909