Lisa Maurice examines screen portrayals of gods - covering Greco-Roman
mythology, the Judeo-Christian God and Jesus - from the beginning of
cinema to the present day. Focussing on the golden age of the Hollywood
epic in the fifties and the twenty-first century second wave of big
screen productions, she provides an over-arching picture that allows
historical trends and developments to be demonstrated and contrasted.
Engaging with recent scholarship on film, particularly film and theology
as well as classical reception, she considers the presentation of these
gods through examination of their physical and moral characteristics, as
well as their interaction with the human world, against the background
of the social contexts of each production.