The Bible on silent film : spectacle, story and scripture in the early cinema / David J. Shepherd.

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"Between the advent of motion pictures in the 1890s and the close of the 'silent' era at the end of the 1920s, many of the longest, most expensive and most watched films on both sides of the Atlantic drew upon biblical traditions. David J. Shepherd traces the evolution of the biblical film through t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shepherd, David, 1972-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Bible films > History and criticism.
Silent films > Religious aspects.
Bible > In motion pictures.
RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament.
Physical Description:xii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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