عنوان

Samson's "Thorn Bush" Tagging of Delilah Within Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949):

شماره

LA126129

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Samson's "Thorn Bush" Tagging of Delilah Within Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949):

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Pricking One's Scriptural Conscience?

نام نخستين پديدآور

Anton Karl Kozlovic

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Legendary producer-director Cecil B. DeMille was a seminal cofounder of Hollywood, a progenitor of Paramount Pictures, and an unsung auteur who was not only an early pioneer of the religion-and-film genre but became the undisputed master of the American biblical epic. However, the many deftly engineered sacred subtexts, thematic preoccupations, and aesthetic skills of this movie trailblazer were frequently denied, derided or dismissed during his lifetime and decades thereafter. This situation is in need of re-examination, rectification and renewal. Consequently, following a close reading of Samson and Delilah (1949) and a selective review of the critical DeMille, film and religion literature, this article uses Delilah's (Hedy Lamarr) "thorn bush" tag, given to her during the wedding feast confrontation scene with Samson (Victor Mature), to explicate ten thorn bush themes that reveal some of the hidden depths of C.B.'s biblical artistry. Utilising textually-based humanist film criticism as the guiding analytical lens, this article concludes that DeMille was a far defter biblical filmmaker than has hitherto been appreciated. Further research into DeMille studies, biblical epics, and the religion-and-film field is warranted, recommended and already long overdue. Legendary producer-director Cecil B. DeMille was a seminal cofounder of Hollywood, a progenitor of Paramount Pictures, and an unsung auteur who was not only an early pioneer of the religion-and-film genre but became the undisputed master of the American biblical epic. However, the many deftly engineered sacred subtexts, thematic preoccupations, and aesthetic skills of this movie trailblazer were frequently denied, derided or dismissed during his lifetime and decades thereafter. This situation is in need of re-examination, rectification and renewal. Consequently, following a close reading of Samson and Delilah (1949) and a selective review of the critical DeMille, film and religion literature, this article uses Delilah's (Hedy Lamarr) "thorn bush" tag, given to her during the wedding feast confrontation scene with Samson (Victor Mature), to explicate ten thorn bush themes that reveal some of the hidden depths of C.B.'s biblical artistry. Utilising textually-based humanist film criticism as the guiding analytical lens, this article concludes that DeMille was a far defter biblical filmmaker than has hitherto been appreciated. Further research into DeMille studies, biblical epics, and the religion-and-film field is warranted, recommended and already long overdue.

تاريخ نشر

2014

توصيف ظاهري

74-106

عنوان

Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture

شماره جلد

3/3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2165-9214

اصطلاح موضوعی

Biblical epics

اصطلاح موضوعی

Cecil B. DeMille

اصطلاح موضوعی

Religion and film

اصطلاح موضوعی

textual criticism

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Anton Karl Kozlovic

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/21659214-90000062

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y