Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films

<p>Movies which have drawn inspiration from the Bible either directly or indirectly have been extremely popular since the earliest days of cinema. <i>Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films</i> introduces a wide range of those movies which are among the most important critically-acclaimed and highest-grossing films of all time including:</p><ul> <li>The King of Kings </li> <li>Ben-Hur </li> <li>The Passion of the Christ </li> <li>Frankenstein</li> <li>Close Encounters of the Third Kind</li> <li>2001: A Space Odyssey </li> <li>Apocalypse Now </li> <li>Monty Python’s Life of Brian. </li> </ul><p>Written by a team of international scholars the fifty entries discuss the Biblical stories characters or motifs depicted in each film making this book the ideal guide for anyone interested in the long-standing relationship between the Bible and film.</p>