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literature list on: King of Kings (1961)
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#1
Booy, M.: The torn curtain: Narrative and authority in the Jesus film. - Norwich, Norfolk: University of East Anglia, Ph.D. 1997. [Abstract in: Index to Theses with Abstracts 47. 1998. No. 1. p. 19(47-162).]
Description:
Discusses, among others, Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings, George Stevens’s The Greatest Story Ever Told, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Il vangelo secondo Matteo and Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ.
Index:
Ray, Nicholas
Stevens, George
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Scorsese, Martin
King of Kings (1961)
Greatest Story Ever Told, The (1963)
vangelo secondo Matteo, Il (1964)
Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988)
Religion ~ Religion
#2
Flesher, Paul Virgil McCracken / Torry, Robert: Film & religion: An introduction. - Nashville, Tennessee: Abingdon Press 2007.
Description:
Includes chapters on Christmas films, on the representation of the Cold War and nuclear fears in film, on the representation of ancient history and the rise of the Christianity in film, on alien messiah figures, on the representation of the devil and finally on the representation of world religions like Islam, Judaism and Buddhism in film. Discusses, among others, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Chuck Jones and Ben Washam, Rudolph Maté’s When Worlds Collide, Robert Wise’s The Day the Earth Stood Still, Mervyn LeRoy’s Quo Vadis? and King of Kings, Henry Koster’s The Robe, Cecil Blount DeMille’s The Ten Commandments, Norman Jewison’s Jesus Christ Superstar and Agnes of Good, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ, Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, Richard Donner’s The Omen, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 - A Space Odyssey, Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Barry Levinson’s The Natural, Phil Alden Robinson’s Field of Dreams and Bernardo Bertolucci’s Little Buddha.
Index:
Jones, Chuck
Washam, Ben
Maté, Rudolph
Wise, Robert
LeRoy, Mervyn
Koster, Henry
DeMille, Cecil Blount
Jewison, Norman
Scorsese, Martin
Gibson, Mel
Friedkin, William
Donner, Richard
Kubrick, Stanley
Spielberg, Steven
Levinson, Barry
Robinson, Phil Alden
Bertolucci, Bernardo
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
Quo Vadis? (1951)
King of Kings (1961)
Robe, The (1953)
Ten Commandments, The (1957)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1972)
Agnes of Good (1985)
Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988)
Passion of the Christ, The (2004)
Exorcist, The (1973)
Omen, The / Birthmark (1976)
2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Natural, The (1983)
Field of Dreams (1989)
Little Buddha (1993)
Religion: Teufel ~ Religion: Devil
Religion: Juden ~ Religion: Jews
Religion: Islam ~ Religion: Islam
Religion: Buddhismus ~ Religion: Buddhism
Religion ~ Religion
Krieg ~ War
Geschichte: Antike ~ History: Ancient Times
Atom ~ Nuclear
Angst ~ Fear
Aliens ~ Aliens
#3
Germinario, Mario: Cinema ed estetica: L’evocazione del sacro nel cinema religioso. - Bari: Stilo 2005. (= Collana Filosofia.)
Description:
On the representation of the Christ figure in film. Includes chapters on Norman Jewison’s Jesus Christ Superstar, Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings, George Stevens’s The Greatest Story Ever Told, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Il vangelo secondo Matteo, Roberto Rossellini’s Il Messia, Franco Zeffirelli’s Gesù di Nazareth and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.
Index:
Jewison, Norman
Ray, Nicholas
Stevens, George
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Rossellini, Roberto
Zeffirelli, Franco
Gibson, Mel
Jesus Christ Superstar (1972)
King of Kings (1961)
Greatest Story Ever Told, The (1963)
vangelo secondo Matteo, Il (1964)
Messia, Il / Messie, La (1975)
Gesù di Nazareth / Jesus of Nazareth (1976)
Passion of the Christ, The (2004)
Religion ~ Religion
#4
Grace, Pamela: The religious film: Christianity and the hagiopic. - Chichester; Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell 2009. (= New approaches to film genre 4.)
Reviews:
Fleeger, Jennifer: [untitled.] In: Journal of Film and Video 63. 2011. No. 4. [Winter] pp. 64-66.
Matson, Robert W.: [untitled.] In: Film & History 40. 2010. No. 2. [Fall] pp. 111-114.
Description:
Includes chapters on Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings, Henry King’s The Song of Bernadette, Norman Jewison’s Jesus Christ Superstar, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Il vangelo secondo Matteo, Denys Arcand’s Jésus de Montréal, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s La Passion de Jean d’Arc, Luc Besson’s The Messenger, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ and
Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.
Index:
Ray, Nicholas
King, Henry
Jewison, Norman
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Arcand, Denys
Dreyer, Carl Theodor
Besson, Luc
Scorsese, Martin
Gibson, Mel
King of Kings (1961)
Song of Bernadette, The (1943)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1972)
vangelo secondo Matteo, Il (1964)
Jésus de Montréal (1989)
Passion de Jean d’Arc, La (1928)
Messenger, The: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988)
Passion of the Christ, The (2004)
Religion ~ Religion
#5
Gregg, Amy G.: / Mikkelson, Douglas K.: King of Kings: A silver screen gospel. - Lanham, Maryland; London: University Press of America 2001.
Description:
Other Jesus films are also mentioned.
Index:
Ray, Nicholas
King of Kings (1961)
Religion ~ Religion
#6
Howell, David B.: Screening the temptation: Interpretation and indeterminacy in cinematic transformations of a Gospel story. In: Journal of Religion and Film 11. 2007. No. 2. [October] p. 12.
Description:
On the representation of Jesus in film. Discusses especially Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Il vangelo secondo Matteo, George Stevens’s The Greatest Story Ever Told, Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings, Denys Arcand’s Jésus de Montréal, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ and Jesus by John Heyman, Peter Sykes and John Kirsh.
Index:
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Stevens, George
Ray, Nicholas
Arcand, Denys
Scorsese, Martin
Heyman, John
Sykes, Peter
Kirsh, John
vangelo secondo Matteo, Il (1964)
Greatest Story Ever Told, The (1963)
King of Kings (1961)
Jésus de Montréal (1989)
Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988)
Jesus (1979)
Religion ~ Religion
#7
Kraemer, Ross S.: King of Kings (1961). In: Bible and cinema: Fifty key films. Edited by Adele Reinhartz. - New York: Routledge 2013. (= Routledge key guides.) pp. 166-172.
Index:
Ray, Nicholas
King of Kings (1961)
Religion ~ Religion
#8
Kupfer, Marcia: The Passion story: From visual representation to social drama. - Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press 2008.
Description:
Discusses especially Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.
Index:
Ray, Nicholas
Scorsese, Martin
Gibson, Mel
King of Kings (1961)
Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988)
Passion of the Christ, The (2004)
Religion ~ Religion
#9
Leslie, Donna: Hollywood and the Catholic Church. - New York: Long Island University, The Brooklyn Center, M.F.A. 2017. [Abstract in: Masters Abstracts International 56. 2017. No. 6M.]
Description:
Discusses, among others, Cecil Blount DeMille’s The Ten Commandments, William Wyler’s Ben Hur, Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings, and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.
Index:
DeMille, Cecil Blount
Wyler, William
Ray, Nicholas
Gibson, Mel
Ten Commandments, The (1957)
Ben Hur (1959)
King of Kings (1961)
Passion of the Christ, The (2004)
Religion ~ Religion
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
#10
LoBrutto, Vincent: Harold Kress. In: LoBrutto, Vincent: Selected takes: Film editors on editing. - Westport, Connecticut; New York; London: Praeger Publishing 1991. pp. 1-12.
Description:
On the cutter and his work for Victor Fleming’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings and George Stevens’s The Greatest Story Ever Told.
Index:
Fleming, Victor
Ray, Nicholas
Stevens, George
Kress, Harold F.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
King of Kings (1961)
Greatest Story Ever Told, The (1963)
#11
Meyer, Stephen C.: King of Kings and the problem of repetition. In: Meyer, Stephen C.: Epic sound: Music in postwar Hollywood biblical films. - Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press 2015.p. ?P.
Index:
Ray, Nicholas
King of Kings (1961)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Krieg ~ War
Religion ~ Religion
Musik ~ Music
#12
Renick, Kyle: For Christ’s sake. In: Film Score Monthly 9. 2004. No. 3. [March] pp. 18-48.
Description:
On music for films dealing with Jesus Christ, among them Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Il vangelo secondo Matteo, Franco Zeffirelli’s Gesù di Nazareth, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.
Index:
Ray, Nicholas
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Zeffirelli, Franco
Scorsese, Martin
Gibson, Mel
King of Kings (1961)
vangelo secondo Matteo, Il (1964)
Gesù di Nazareth / Jesus of Nazareth (1976)
Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988)
Passion of the Christ, The (2004)
Religion ~ Religion
Musik ~ Music
#13
Staley, Jeffrey Lloyd / Walsh, Richard: Jesus, the Gospels, and cinematic imagination: A handbook to Jesus on DVD. - Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press 2007.
Reviews:
Greenspoon, Leonard: Jesus in movies. In: Biblical Archaeology Review 34. 2008. No. 6. [November/December] pp. 78-80.
Description:
Discusses La vie et la passion de Jesus-Christ by Lucien Nonguet and Ferdinand Zecca, Sydney Olcott’s From the Manger to the Cross, David Wark Griffith’s Intolerance, Cecil Blount DeMille’s The King of Kings, Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Il vangelo secondo Matteo, George Stevens’s The Greatest Story Ever Told, Norman Jewison’s Jesus Christ Superstar, David Greene’s Godspell, Franco Zeffirelli’s Gesù di Nazareth, Jesus by John Heyman, Peter Sykes and John Kirsh, Terry Jones’s Monty Python’s Life of Brian, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ, Denys Arcand’s Jésus de Montréal, Roger Young’s Jesus, The Miracle Maker by Derek W. Hayes and Stanislav Sokolov, Philip Saville’s The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.
Index:
Nonguet, Lucien
Zecca, Ferdinand
Olcott, Sydney
Griffith, David Wark
DeMille, Cecil Blount
Ray, Nicholas
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Stevens, George
Jewison, Norman
Greene, David
Zeffirelli, Franco
Heyman, John
Sykes, Peter
Kirsh, John
Jones, Terry
Scorsese, Martin
Arcand, Denys
Young, Roger
Hayes, Derek W.
Sokolov, Stanislav
Saville, Philip
Gibson, Mel
vie et las passion de Jesus-Christ, La (1902-1905)
From the Manger to the Cross (1912)
Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Througout the Ages (1916)
King of Kings, The (1927)
King of Kings (1961)
vangelo secondo Matteo, Il (1964)
Greatest Story Ever Told, The (1963)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1972)
Godspell (1973)
Gesù di Nazareth / Jesus of Nazareth (1976)
Jesus (1979)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988)
Jésus de Montréal (1989)
Bibel, Die - Jesus / Jesus (1999)
Miracle Maker, The (2000)
Visual Bible, The: The Gospel of John (2003)
Passion of the Christ, The (2004)
Religion ~ Religion
DVD ~ DVD
#14
Torry, Robert: The wrath of God: Hollywood religious epics and American Cold War policy. In: Arizona Quarterly 61. 2005. No. 2. [Summer] pp. 67-86.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings and Cecil Blount DeMille’s The Ten Commandments.
Index:
Ray, Nicholas
DeMille, Cecil Blount
King of Kings (1961)
Ten Commandments, The (1957)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Religion ~ Religion
Krieg ~ War
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
#15
Williams, Tony: Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings. In: Cineaction 2009. No. 76. [?D] pp. 42-49.
Index:
Ray, Nicholas
King of Kings (1961)
#16
Zehn ausgewählte Jesus-Filme: Kritiken und Materialien. In: Jesus in der Hauptrolle: Zur Geschichte und Ästhetik der Jesus-Filme. - Köln: Katholisches Institut für Medieninformation 1992. (= Film-Dienst Extra [November].) pp. 58-73.
Description:
Discusses Henry Koster’s The Robe, Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings, George Stevens’s The Greatest Story Ever Told, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Il vangelo secondo Matteo, Norman Jewison’s Jesus Christ Superstar, Roberto Rossellini’s La Messia, / Il Messie, Jesus by John Heyman, Peter Sykes and John Kirsh, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ, Denys Arcand’s Jésus de Montréal and Es wäre gut, daß ein Mensch würde umgebracht für das Volk by Hugo Niebeling.
Index:
Koster, Henry
Ray, Nicholas
Stevens, George
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Jewison, Norman
Rossellini, Roberto
Heyman, John
Sykes, Peter
Kirsh, John
Scorsese, Martin
Arcand, Denys
Niebeling, Hugo
Robe, The (1953)
King of Kings (1961)
Greatest Story Ever Told, The (1963)
vangelo secondo Matteo, Il (1964)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1972)
Messia, Il / Messie, La (1975)
Jesus (1979)
Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988)
Jésus de Montréal (1989)
Es wäre gut, daß ein Mensch würde umgebracht für das Volk (1991)
Religion ~ Religion
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