David J. Shepherd is Lecturer in the School of Religions, Peace Studies and Theology at Trinity College Dublin.

Introduction David J. Shepherd 1. The Passion of the Christ: a form, a genre, a discourse André Gaudreault2. La Vie et Passion de Jésus Christ (Pathé-Frères, 1902-1905): Tableau Variation in the Early Cinema Valentine Robert and Alain Boillat3. La naissance, vie et passion du Christ (Gaumont, 1906): The Gospel According to Alice Guy David J. Shepherd4. La Vie et Passion de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ (Pathé-Frères, 1907): The Preservation and Transformation of Zecca's Passion Dwight H. Friesen5. Sidney Olcott's From the Manger to the Cross (Kalem, 1912): Out of Egypt and Palestine W. Barnes Tatum6. The Star of Bethlehem (Thanhouser, 1912): The Sacred Story from King Herod to the Crip Terry Lindvall7. The Shadow of Nazareth (Venus Features/Warner Features, 1913): The Hermeneutics of an Unauthorized Adaptation Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch8. La Vie et Passion de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ (Pathé-Frères 1913/24): Pathé's Inclination to Tell and Maître's Instinct to Show Jo-Ann Brant9. The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915) and Intolerance (Triangle/Wark 1916): Griffith's Talismanic Jesus Richard Walsh10. Christus (CINES, 1916): Italy's First Religious "Kolossal" by Antamoro and Salvatori Giuseppe Pucci11. Der Galiläer (Express-Film, 1921) and I.N.R.I. (Neumann-Film, 1923): The Silence of Jesus in the Early German Cinema Reinhold Zwick12. Leaves from Satan's Book (Nordisk, 1921) and Dreyer's Script <