Drawing upon rarely seen archival footage and the work of the silent era’s most important directors, such as Alice Guy, Ferdinand Zecca, Sidney Olcott, D.W. Griffith, and C.B. DeMille, this volume offers a representative survey of the Silents of Jesus, illustrating the ways in which a host of cinematic Saviors not only shaped the cinema, but were s

Introduction David J. Shepherd 1. The Passion of the Christ: a form, a genre, a discourse André Gaudreault 2. La Vie et Passion de Jésus Christ (Pathé-Frères, 1902-1905): Tableau Variation in the Early Cinema Valentine Robert and Alain Boillat 3. La naissance, vie et passion du Christ (Gaumont, 1906): The Gospel According to Alice Guy David J. Shepherd 4. La Vie et Passion de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ (Pathé-Frères, 1907): The Preservation and Transformation of Zecca's Passion Dwight H. Friesen 5. Sidney Olcott's From the Manger to the Cross (Kalem, 1912): Out of Egypt and Palestine W. Barnes Tatum 6. The Star of Bethlehem (Thanhouser, 1912): The Sacred Story from King Herod to the Crip Terry Lindvall 7. The Shadow of Nazareth (Venus Features/Warner Features, 1913): The Hermeneutics of an Unauthorized Adaptation Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch 8. La Vie et Passion de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ (Pathé-Frères 1913/24): Pathé's Inclination to Tell and Maître's Instinct to Show Jo-Ann Brant 9. The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915) and Intolerance (Triangle/Wark 1916): Griffith's Talismanic Jesus Richard Walsh 10. Christus (CINES, 1916): Italy's First Religious "Kolossal" by Antamoro and Salvatori Giuseppe Pucci 11. Der Galiläer (Express-Film, 1921) and I.N.R.I. (Neumann-Film, 1923): The Silence of Jesus in the Early German Cinema Reinhold Zwick 12. Leaves from Satan's Book (Nordisk, 1921) and Dreyer's Script