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Meeting Program Units

2012 Annual Meeting

Chicago, IL

Meeting Begins11/16/2012
Meeting Ends11/20/2012

Call for Papers Opens: 2/8/2012
Call for Papers Closes: 3/7/2012

Requirements for Participation

Bible and Film


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: 1) The unit invites papers for two open sessions dealing with the critical analysis and interpretation of films incorporating scripture or scriptural themes/motifs in terms of the production, content, context, significance, and ideology of film, scripture, and their interpretation. Presentations suggesting interactions with theory are of particular interest to the unit. Presenters are given 35 minutes to accommodate the use of film clips in their presentations. 2)A third session will feature a panel (four invited presentations and two invited respondents) dealing with intersections of biblical and film theory. 3)A fourth session will be held jointly with the Asian and Asian American Hermeneutics Group and will showing the award-winning 2005 Canadian film, "Eve and the Fire Horse," directed by Julia Kwan.

Program Unit Chairs

Richard G. Walsh
Jeffrey Staley

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