Missions and film

Title: Missions and film
Creator: Scott, Jamie S.
Relation: International Bulletin of Missionary Research Vol. 32, Issue 3, p. 115-120
Relation: http://www.internationalbulletin.org/files/html/2008-03-contents.html
Publisher: Overseas Ministries Studies Center
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: We are all familiar with the phenomenon of the “Jesus” film, but various kinds of movies—some adapted from literature or life, some original in conception—have portrayed a variety of Christian missions and missionaries. If “Jesus” films give us different readings of the kerygmatic paradox of divine incarnation, pictures about missions and missionaries explore the entirely human question: Who is or is not the model Christian? Silent movies featured various forms of evangelism, usually Protestant. The trope of evangelism continued in big-screen and later made-for-television “talkies,” including musicals. Biographical pictures and documentaries have depicted evangelists in feature films and television productions, and recent years have seen the burgeoning of Christian cinema as a distinct genre. In a related development, various denominations make use of film in proselytizing, and missions and missionaries also figure in educational videos.
Subject: Christianity; missions; missionaries; movies; film
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43536
Identifier: uon:5631
Identifier: ISSN:0272-6122
Language: eng

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