The Historical Jesus and the Christ of Early Cinema: A Complicated Relationship

When at the onset of the twentieth century, the influential German theologian Albert Schweitzer published a historiographical account of the ‘historical Jesus’, a discrete number of silent films devoted to the life and death of Christ had already appeared in Europe and the United States. This articl...

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第一著者: Cristiana Facchini
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言語:英語
出版事項: Schüren Verlag 2021
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