TY - CHAP
T1 - Mashing-up the Bible’s Passion Story
T2 - Transmedia Adaptation and User Participation in the Post-Celluloid Era
AU - Lau, Dorothy Wai Sim
PY - 2023/2/10
Y1 - 2023/2/10
N2 - There has been a long tradition of adapting stories in the Bible to Hollywood screens, epitomizing how the sacred and the secular intersect. The post-studio Hollywood cinema in the 1950s and 1960s was signposted by the burgeoning array of religious epics. The rejuvenated effort of screen adaptation coincides with the propagation of user-generated media conduits and digitized fan networks, which alter the ways biblical stories are unfolded and consumed. This chapter examines how user participation, encapsulated in mashups, a popular form of user-generated creative materials, makes an intervention in adapting the “Passion” story. This chapter focuses on Mel Gibson’s Hollywood adaptation of the Gospels and its afterlives in the form of “mashups”, which diversify and destabilize Gibson’s vision of the Crucifixion in the context of participatory culture. This chapter resituates the adaptation of religious narratives in the contested terrain of user-oriented mediascapes.
AB - There has been a long tradition of adapting stories in the Bible to Hollywood screens, epitomizing how the sacred and the secular intersect. The post-studio Hollywood cinema in the 1950s and 1960s was signposted by the burgeoning array of religious epics. The rejuvenated effort of screen adaptation coincides with the propagation of user-generated media conduits and digitized fan networks, which alter the ways biblical stories are unfolded and consumed. This chapter examines how user participation, encapsulated in mashups, a popular form of user-generated creative materials, makes an intervention in adapting the “Passion” story. This chapter focuses on Mel Gibson’s Hollywood adaptation of the Gospels and its afterlives in the form of “mashups”, which diversify and destabilize Gibson’s vision of the Crucifixion in the context of participatory culture. This chapter resituates the adaptation of religious narratives in the contested terrain of user-oriented mediascapes.
UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003038368-7/mashing-bible-passion-story-dorothy-wai-sim-lau?context=ubx&refId=87321091-aaac-4250-be2c-5bab56ceac9d
UR - https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Global-Literary-Adaptation-in-the-Twenty-First/Chua-Ho/p/book/9780367481704
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780367481704
SN - 9781032425597
T3 - Routledge Literature Companions
SP - 70
EP - 80
BT - The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century
A2 - Chua, Brandon
A2 - Ho, Elizabeth
PB - Routledge
CY - London ; New York
ER -