Jesus Christ Moviestar Jesus and the Gospel Tradition in Film

Films depicting Christ or Christ-figures are often a combination of controversial, award-winning and good box office but modern audiences tend to be more au fait with cinema than the Bible. Author William R. Telford aims to redress that balance in this introduction to approaches to Jesus and the New Testament in film. Telford offers descriptions of developments in the field in recent years, accounts of the critical methods and approaches now being employed, reviews of significant films and analyses of cinematic treatments of Jesus, and the characters and traditions associated with him in the Gospels, including Peter, Judas and Mary Magdalene.