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Noah Narratives and the Popular Cinema Noah Narratives and the Popular Cinema
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Noah’s Ark (U.S., dir. Michael Curtiz, 1928) Noah’s Ark (U.S., dir. Michael Curtiz, 1928)
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The Green Pastures (U.S., dir. Marc Connelly/William Keighley, 1936) The Green Pastures (U.S., dir. Marc Connelly/William Keighley, 1936)
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When Worlds Collide (U.S., dir. Rudolph Maté, 1951) When Worlds Collide (U.S., dir. Rudolph Maté, 1951)
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The Bible: In the Beginning … (U.S./IT, dir. John Huston, 1966) The Bible: In the Beginning … (U.S./IT, dir. John Huston, 1966)
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Noah’s Ark (DE/U.S., dir. John Irvin, 1999) Noah’s Ark (DE/U.S., dir. John Irvin, 1999)
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Northfork (U.S., dir. Michael Polish, 2003) Northfork (U.S., dir. Michael Polish, 2003)
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Evan ALMIGHTY (U.S., dir. Tom Shadyac, 2007) Evan ALMIGHTY (U.S., dir. Tom Shadyac, 2007)
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Noah (U.S., dir. Darren Aronofsky, 2014) Noah (U.S., dir. Darren Aronofsky, 2014)
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Bibliography Bibliography
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21 Noah Narratives, Gender Issues, and the Hollywood Hermeneutic
Get accessAnton Karl Kozlovic, Ph.D., researches in the Department of Screen and Media at Flinders University in Australia, and the Department of Media and Communication at Deakin University in Australia. He has published extensively in the areas of religion and film, Cecil B. DeMille studies, and interreligious dialog. His chapters and multiple entries occur within Sex, Religion, Media (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002); Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives (Scarecrow Press, 2006); Encyclopedia of Religion and Film (ABC-Clio, 2011); Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films (Routledge, 2013); The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and its Reception in Film (Walter de Gruyter, 2016).
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Published:10 November 2020
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Abstract
The exciting field of religion-and-film provides new insights into Holy Writ whenever filmmakers project sacred texts onto the silver screen. One Judeo-Christian film favorite is the diluvial disaster story of Noah and the ark (Gen. 6–9), whether rendered as an epic bio-pic, scriptural fantasy, or sacred subtext. Even “bad” films offer good pedagogic possibilities for via negativa–style biblical exegesis to stimulate one’s religious understanding. Of particular interest is the gender representations of Noah’s family. Consequently, utilizing basic descriptive analysis and a selective review of the critical literature, this chapter investigates eight notable exemplars of Noachian cinema: (1) Noah’s Ark (1928), (2) The Green Pastures (1936), (3) When Worlds Collide (1951), (4) The Bible: In the Beginning . . . (1966), (5) Noah’s Ark (1999), (6) Northfork (2003), (7) Evan ALMIGHTY (2007), and (8) Noah (2014). Each film is closely read, explicated, and copiously illustrated. The chapter concludes that traditional patriarchal gender portrayals do not vary much and that non-scriptural creative extrapolations frequently focus upon rebelliousness, madness, or heterosexual titillation.
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