TY - BOOK AU - Grace,Pamela TI - The religious film: Christianity and the hagiopic T2 - New approaches to film genre SN - 9781405160254 (hardcover : alk. paper) PY - 2009/// CY - Chichester, U.K., Malden, Mass. PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - Religious films KW - History and criticism KW - Religion in motion pictures N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-169) and index; The religious film and the hagiopic -- Historical overview -- Critical overview -- King of Kings (1961): spectacle and anti-spectacle -- The Song of Bernadette (1943): the religious comfort film -- Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) and Jesus Christ Superstar (2000): the religious musical -- The Gospel According to Matthew (1964) and Jesus of Montreal (1989): the alternative hagiopic -- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999): transcendence and exploitation -- The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and The Passion of the Christ (2004): the sacrificial hagiopic UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0828/2008041529.html ER -