[ecrea] Additional chapters requested; CFP: New Heart and New Spirit: Perspectives on the Modern Biblical Epic

This is a follow up to a previous CFP I have posted.  The TOC is shaping 
up well, but there are a few more areas I'd love to have covered.  If 
interested, please email me as soon as possible to discuss potential 
contributions.


Many thanks, and I wish you all the best for the forthcoming holiday 
season and new year.


Best,

Wickham


*CFP: /New Heart and New Spirit: Perspectives on the Modern Biblical Epic/*

The extreme profitability of Mel Gibson’s /The Passion of the Christ/ in 
2004 came as a great surprise to the Hollywood establishment, 
particularly considering its failure to find production funding through 
a major studio.  Since this time, the big-budget mainstream biblical 
epic, long thought dead in terms of widespread marketability, has become 
a viable Hollywood studio product with regards to seeking both profits 
and critical acclaim, as well as outlets for auteurist ‘passion 
projects’ such as Gibson’s film, Darren Aronofsky’s /Noah/ (2014), and 
Ridley Scott’s /Exodus: Gods and Kings/.  With this year seeing two new 
fiction films featuring depictions of Jesus, the crucifixion, and 
resurrection [/Risen /(dir. Kevin Reynolds) and/ Ben-Hur /(dir. Timur 
Bekmambetov)], academic consideration of the modern biblical epic is 
both timely and highly relevant.

             Proposals can address, but are not limited to:

Con

ConTheological perspectives on modern religious cinema

ConConsiderations of Genre

-Historical and political contexts

-Industrial efforts to capitalise on this trend (see the short-lived Fox 
Faith studios in the mid 2000s and its products)

-Intersections of, or discord between, faith and fandom

-Representations of race and gender

-Philosophical and more broadly theoretical approaches to these films 
and this trend.

*/Please contact Wickham Clayton/* at (wickscripts /at/ hotmail.com) 
<mailto:(wickscripts /at/ hotmail.com)> as soon as possible.  Also feel free to 
email for expressions of interest and questions regarding the project.



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