The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era
ISBN: 9780231547000
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- In motion pictures; Silent films -- History and criticism;

Phillip Maciak examines filmic depictions of Jesus to argue that cinema developed as a model technology of secularism, training viewers for belief in a secular age. Cinematic depictions of an appearing and disappearing Christ became a powerful vehicle for Americans to navigate a rapidly modernizing society.

Maciak Phil :

Phil Maciak (University of Pennsylvania, PhD) is an assistant professor at LSU in the English Department and Program in Film and Media Arts. His scholarly writing has appeared in PMLA, J19 , Film Quarterly , In Media Res , and Adaptation. He is the television editor for Los Angeles Review of Books and his writing on television and film has been published in Slate, The New Republic, and elsewhere.Phillip Maciak teaches in English and American culture studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He is an editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books .


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