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Author McDonough, Christopher Michael.

Title Pontius Pilate on screen : soldier, sinner, superstar / Christopher McDonough
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series Screening Antiquity Ser
Screening Antiquity Ser
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors' Preface -- Frontispiece -- Prologue: 'Do You Enjoy Being a Symbol, Pontius?' The Trial of Pontius Pilate and Governor Collins -- 1 Quod Scripsi Scripsi -- 2 The Silent Pilate -- 3 The Roman in the Living Room: Pilate on TV in the Early 1950s -- 4 Mrs Pilate: Claudia Procula and Clare Boothe Luce -- 5 Pilate in CinemaScope, or Notes on Roman Camp -- 6 Finding Meaning in the Middlebrow: Pilate in the 1960s -- 7 What Is Truth? Pilate as 1970s Moral Relativist -- 8 Michael Palin's Accent in Monty Python's Life of Brian, and a Few Others -- 9 Grand and Not-So-Grand Inquisitors of the Reagan Age -- 10 'We at War': Pilate for the New Millennium -- Epilogue: A Time of Handwashing -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary Pontius Pilate in film from the silent era to the twenty-first century
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Subject Pilate, Pontius, active 1st century -- In motion pictures
SUBJECT Pilate, Pontius, active 1st century fast
Subject Film: styles & genres.
Films, cinema.
History: earliest times to present day.
Film, TV & radio.
History.
The arts.
Humanities.
HISTORY / Ancient / General
Motion pictures
Films, cinema.
General & world history.
Performing Arts.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781474446914
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1474446906
9781474446907