A Conference on the Bible and Film at the University of Exeter

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‘Exodus and the 21st Century Bible Film’
Workshop at the University of Exeter, 26-27 March 2015

Katie Edwards (University of Sheffield)  – God as Brat: Constructions of the Divine in Exodus: Gods and Kings

Nathan Abrams (Bangor University) – Whitewashing Jews & Judaism: From The Ten Commandments to Exodus: Gods and Kings

David Shepherd (Trinity College Dublin) – ‘See This Great Sight’: Exodus and the Evolution of Biblical Spectacle

Catherine Wheatley (Kings College London) – Religious America, Secular Europe? Adapting the Bible in Contemporary Hollywood and European Film

Samuel Tongue (University of Glasgow) – Picturing the Plagues and Parting the Waves: Visual Style and World Building in Exodus: Gods and Kings

Michelle Fletcher (Kings College London) – Once Upon an Apocalypse: Violence, Destruction and a Long, Long Time Ago

Jon Morgan (University of Chester) – Reading the Entrails: Interpreting the Rebooted Biblical Epic

David Tollerton (University of Exeter)
‘Down With This Sort of Thing!’ The Multiform Blasphemies Perceived Amidst Receptions of Exodus: Gods and Kings

Phil Wickham (Bill Douglas Cinema Museum) – Bible and Film at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum Collection

The workshop is free, but because space is limited please contact David Tollerton (d.c.tollerton@exeter.ac.uk) as soon as possible if you would like to participate. The event is affiliated with several research groups based at the University of Exeter:

• The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
• Centre for Biblical Studies
• Centre for Interdisciplinary Film Research
• Network for Religion in Public Life