The disappearing Christ : secularism in the silent era / Phillip Maciak.
At the turn of the twentieth century, American popular culture was booming with opportunities to see Jesus Christ. From the modernized eyewitness gospel of Ben-Hur to the widely circulated passion play films of Edison, Lumière, and Path ; from D. W. Griffith's conjuration of a spectral white savior...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2019]
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 243 pages ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |