Imag(in)ing Jesus in the Universal or Particular
Cross-Cultural Bible Film Reception of The Lumo Project: The Gospel of Mark and Son of Man
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 2 October 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780567709776
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Long description:
This volume is a critical exploration of cross-cultural Bible film reception presented through an analysis of the responses of UK and South African audiences to The Lumo Project: The Gospel of Mark (2014) and Son of Man (2006). Victoria Olaide Omotoso places emphasis on audience reception and highlighting the non-Western experience of biblical films by examining the responses of audiences from different cultural contexts to identical media, with a cross-cultural audience discourse facilitated by cultural dynamics: fidelity to the (biblical) text, ethnicity, music, and gender. By examining historic and cinematic debates, audience responses and filmmaker responses, Omotoso explores the ethnicity of Jesus, theological contexts and implications, and the presentation of Jesus in an androcentric world.
Omotoso adopts the concepts of universality and particularity as frameworks to determine the ways through which the filmmakers attempt to identify their cinematic visions and locations. She defines universality as a phenomenon through which the filmmaker seeks to place the narrative within a trans-cultural frame for a global audience; in contrast, her definition of particularity is envisioning a unitary and specific cultural context for the narrative. By exploring fidelity to the text, the ethnic identity of Jesus, musical contexts, masculinity and female agency, the universal and particular are shown as complex, contested, and shifting concepts within the process of cross-cultural audience reception, which frequently destabilizes the intentions of the filmmakers.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Figures
Abbreviations
1. Locating the Research Context
2. Fidelity to the Text and History: Understanding History and Belief
3. 'But Who Do You Say That I Am'? Constructions of the Ethnic Identity of Jesus in The Lumo Project and Son of Man
4. Sounds of Passion, Peace and Protest: Music and Soundscape in The Lumo Project and Son of Man
5. All are Welcome: Gender Representations of Masculinity and Female Agency
Conclusion
List of Appendices
Bibliography
