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A Biblical Poetics for Filmmakers
In this paper, we present a poetics, or guide manual, for making narrative films that resemble biblical narratives. It is similar to Aristotle’s Poetics, only his was for creating drama (though it is of course often used for film now) and was based on Greek dramas and epics. Our poetics is specifically for making films and is based on an even more ancient body of narratives—the Hebrew Bible. In articulating a biblical poetics for filmmakers, we draw heavily on the work of a few of the many biblical-narrative scholars of the last half-century, who draw in turn from the even more extensive research that has been done on narrative theory in general. Our project is one that Aristotle might have undertaken if he had read the Bible and its commentators and known about film.
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From Northrop Frye's perspective, which views the Hebrew Bible as the foundational imagination behind the literary ideologies that shaped Western thought, this discussion aims to highlight some points of convergence between biblical literature and the narrative structure found in contemporary cinema, one of the most sophisticated storytelling mediums today. The theoretical framework for this exploration draws on the works of scholars such as Robert Alter, Daniel Marguerat and Yvan Bourquin, Gary Yamasaki, and David Bordwell, among others. As Adele Berlin points out, the narratives of the Hebrew Bible convey their message through both the form and content of the text. Building on this idea, the focus here is to demonstrate that beyond thematic parallels, the narrative structure of the Bible aligns methodologically with the storytelling techniques of modern cinema.
Before and After the Art of Biblical Narrative
Prooftexts, 2008
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. This content downloaded from 165.123.34.86 on Tue, 09 Jun 2015 09:46:46 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions y 191 PROOFTEXTS 27 (2007): 191-210. S t e v e n W e i t z m A n A B S t r A c t What has become of the so-called literary approach to the Bible since Robert Alter published The Art of Biblical Narrative in 1981? What gave rise to this approach in the first place? How has it been influenced by recent trends in biblical studies and literary scholarship? And what is its future, both in general and as part of the particular project that Prooftexts represents? The essay addresses these questions as a way of introducing what is at stake in the present volume.
Mythic Cinema and the Contemporary Biblical Epic
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i "Rindge's primer on biblical film initiates his readers into both biblical film and biblical film scholarship. Amazingly, along the way, Rindge also finds time to introduce readers to many of biblical scholarship's tropes (e.g., the messianic secret, the son of man, the move from the Proclaimer to the proclaimed, and the historical Jesus). The last three chapters alone are worth the book's price as they provide a hermeneutic by which readers can create their own new conversations with the manifold ways that bible and film interact (Bible in Film, Film as Bible, and Bible and Film/ TV). Although a primer, Rindge's book, particularly its penultimate chapter, suggests exciting new scholarly possibilities."
The sermon in three acts: The rhetoric of cinema and the art of narrative biblical exposition
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How to teach narrative communication to emerging preachers? If “story” is the prime vehicle for persuasion in the post-modern context, the master rhetoricians are screenwriters. This article applies the principles of movie scriptwriting to the structure, flow and persuasive logic of sermons, as a possible model for equipping young preachers to communicate the biblical message effectively to their generation. Keywords : Preaching. Rhetoric. Cinema. Biblical Exposition. O sermao em tres atos: A retorica do Cinema e a Arte da Exposicao Biblica Narrativa Como ensinar a comunicacao narrativa para pregadores emergentes? Se a "historia" e o principal veiculo para a persuasao no contexto pos-moderno, os mestres retoricos sao os roteiristas. Este artigo aplica os principios da arte de escrever roteiros de filmes a estrutura, fluxo e logica persuasiva de sermoes, como um possivel modelo para equipar jovens pregadores para comunicar a mensagem biblica de forma eficaz para a sua gerac...