Bible and Film

Call For Papers: This year we will sponsor or co-sponsor the following calls: (1) “Catastrophe and the Bible” (Co-sponsored with AAR’s Religion, Film, and Visual Culture unit). We invite proposals that consider various methodological approaches to visual culture that put the Bible into conversation with some kind of catastrophe, small- or large-scale. Someone’s world is ending, somehow, and the Bible casts a shadow over the proceedings. We are especially (but not only) interested in examinations of works that may not be all that thrilled with this shadow. For instance, the recent Indigenous zombie apocalypse film Blood Quantum is clearly anti-colonial and opens with a quote from Exodus 34:12 about treaties. (2) “Trauma, Film, and Society” (Co-sponsored with Social Sciences and the Interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures unit). As the world struggles to manage the trauma of Covid, we invite proposals that investigate societal trauma in the Bible and film. We welcome all papers that can illuminate our understanding of trauma in the Bible and film using social scientific approaches. (3) Open session. We also invite proposals for an open session on any subject pertaining to Bible and Film (both broadly construed). All proposals should make clear how the presenter will establish a dialogue between a given film and biblical text as well as how this dialogue enriches our interpretation of each. Please note that we expect presenters to incorporate film clips into all presentations. We are also committed to insuring diversity among our presenters as well as diversity of subject matter in terms of global cinema.

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