Episode Two: “It Is Accomplished!”

Episode Two: "It Is Accomplished!"

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This episode looks at the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ as depicted in two very different, very controversial films produced in two very different cultural contexts: Julien Duvivier's Golgotha (1935) and Nader Talebzadeh's Jesus, Spirit Of God (2007). The episode also explores how the death and resurrection is covered in the New Testament and in certain of the non-canonical and non-Christian gospels that both films draw from in different ways. Fascism, the sublime, Sam Cooke... It's all go.

 

Bibliography

Lloyd Baugh, S. J., “Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ: A Critical Reassessment of Its Sources, Its Theological Problems, and Its Impact On The Public” in Scandalizing Jesus: Kazantzakis’s The Last Temptation Of Christ Fifty Years On. Edited by Darren J. N. Middleton. London: Continuum, 2005.

 Carol A. Hebron, Judas Iscariot: Damned or Redeemed: A Critical Examination of the Portrayal of Judas in Jesus Films (1902-2014). London: Bloomsbury, 2019.

Peter Malone, Screen Jesus: Portrayals of Christ in Television and Film. Plymouth: Scarecrow Press, 2012.

 

Web Resources

 Bible Films Blog

 

Audio Clip Sources

 Golgotha (1935, dir. Julien Duvivier)

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965, dir. George Stevens)

Jesus of Nazareth (1977, dir. Franco Zeffirelli)

Jesus, Spirit of God (2007, dir. Nader Talebzadeh)

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988, dir. Martin Scorsese)

 Billy Connolly: “The Crucifixion” (1974)

 

Music

Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers – “Were You There?” (1957)

Alabama Sacred Heart Singers - "Present Joys" (1942)