Spectacle, Story and Scripture in the Early Cinema
by
David J. Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Between the advent of motion pictures in the 1890s and the close of the 'silent' era at the end of the 1920s, many of the longest, most expensive and most watched films on both sides of the Atlantic drew upon biblical traditions. David J. Shepherd traces the evolution of the biblical film through...