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Introduction. The Disappearing Christ and Other Stories

© 2019 Columbia University Press

© 2019 Columbia University Press

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction. The Disappearing Christ and Other Stories 1
  5. The Historical Jesus in Broad Daylight 7
  6. Unseen Somethings: American Studies and Postsecular Critique 11
  7. Things Normally Unseen: Film Studies and Postsecular Critique 17
  8. Outline of the Book 24
  9. 1. A Rare and Wonderful Sight: Ben-Hur’s Historicism 28
  10. 2. Looking Sideways: Media Theories of Jesus Christ 55
  11. 3. Tricks and Actualities: The Passion Play Film and the Cinema of Attractions 98
  12. 4. The Double Life of Superimposition: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Christ Cycle 134
  13. Coda. Resurrectionists: Toward a Post-Cinematic Postsecular 176
  14. The Resurrection is in Technicolor: Cecil B. DeMille 178
  15. The Resurrection is CGI: Mel Gibson 184
  16. Post-Cinematic/Postsecular 189
  17. The Resurrection is Straight to Video: Abbas Kiarostami 196
  18. Notes 205
  19. Bibliography 225
  20. Index 235
The Disappearing Christ
This chapter is in the book The Disappearing Christ
https://doi.org/10.7312/maci18708-002

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction. The Disappearing Christ and Other Stories 1
  5. The Historical Jesus in Broad Daylight 7
  6. Unseen Somethings: American Studies and Postsecular Critique 11
  7. Things Normally Unseen: Film Studies and Postsecular Critique 17
  8. Outline of the Book 24
  9. 1. A Rare and Wonderful Sight: Ben-Hur’s Historicism 28
  10. 2. Looking Sideways: Media Theories of Jesus Christ 55
  11. 3. Tricks and Actualities: The Passion Play Film and the Cinema of Attractions 98
  12. 4. The Double Life of Superimposition: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Christ Cycle 134
  13. Coda. Resurrectionists: Toward a Post-Cinematic Postsecular 176
  14. The Resurrection is in Technicolor: Cecil B. DeMille 178
  15. The Resurrection is CGI: Mel Gibson 184
  16. Post-Cinematic/Postsecular 189
  17. The Resurrection is Straight to Video: Abbas Kiarostami 196
  18. Notes 205
  19. Bibliography 225
  20. Index 235
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