The Canon Post-The Passion

I started writing an introduction for piece about how Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ was a real game changer for the genre but ...

The Canon Around the Millennium

The impending arrival of the new millennium was accompanied by an unprecedented volume of productions in a surprisingly short amount of time...

The Canon in the "Experimental" Era

This is the latest in a series of posts about the relationship between the Bible, the idea of canonicity and film. The " Golden Era ...

The Canon in "the Golden Era"

This is the latest in a series of posts about the relationship between the Bible, the idea of canonicity and film. Just as cinema saw off t...

The Canon in the Early Sound Era

This is the latest in a series of posts about the relationship between the Bible, the idea of canonicity and film. The start of the sound e...

The Canon in the Late Silent Era

This is the latest in a series of posts about the relationship between the Bible, the idea of canonicity and film. The latter part of the s...

The Canon in the Early Silent Era pt.3

Please note this post is very much a work in progress and as such a few parts of it need closer fact checking In the previous two posts in t...

The Canon in the Early Silent Era pt.2

In my previous entry in this series I was looking at how the stories from the Hebrew Bible that the earliest filmmakers adapted into the f...

The Canon in the Early Silent Era pt.1

At the end of last year I started a series looking at how the idea of "canon" relates to the Bible on Film. There's not been ...

The Seven Ages of Bible Films

Over the years there have been various books and articles written on the development of Bible films some of which have attempted to sub-divi...

The Formation of the Canon

This post is number 2 in a series looking at the idea of canonicity and how it might relate to the subject of film and the Bible. Image inf...