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Phil Maciak The Disappearing Christ (Hardback). Author: Phil Maciak. InThe Disappearing Christ, Phillip Maciak examines filmic depictions of Jesus to argue that cinema developed as a model technology of secularism, training viewers for belief in a secular age. Further DetailsTitle: The Disappearing Christ Condition: New Subtitle: Secularism in the Silent Era Author: Phil Maciak Format: Hardback ISBN-10: 0231187084 EAN: 9780231187084 ISBN: 9780231187084 Publisher: Columbia University Press Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality Topic: Films & TV Release Date: 08/27/2019 Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, American popular culture was booming with opportunities to see Jesus Christ. From the modernized eyewitness gospel of Ben-Hur to the widely circulated passion play films of Edison, Lumière, and Pathé; from D. W. Griffith’s conjuration of a spectral white savior in Birth of a Nation to W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Black Christ” story cycle, Jesus was constantly and inventively visualized across media, and especially in the new medium of film. Why, in an era traditionally defined by the triumph of secular ideologies and institutions, were so many artists rushing to film Christ’s miracles and use his story and image to contextualize their experiences of modernity?In The Disappearing Christ , Phillip Maciak examines filmic depictions of Jesus to argue that cinema developed as a model technology of secularism, training viewers for belief in a secular age. Negotiating between the magic trick and the documentary image, the conflicting impulses of faith and skepticism, the emerging aesthetic of film in this period visualized the fraught process of secularization. Cinematic depictions of an appearing and disappearing Christ became a powerful vehicle for Americans to navigate a rapidly modernizing society. Studying these films alongside a multimedia, interdisciplinary archive of novels, photographs, illustrations, and works of theology, travel writing, and historiography, The Disappearing Christ offers a new narrative of American cultural history at the intersection of cinema studies and religious studies. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 235mm Item Length: 156mm Release Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
