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2015

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Jon Boorstin proposes three purposes for film production – voyeuristic, vicarious, and visceral (Boorstin). Scrutinized in light of Boorstin’s proposal, hagiographical films are most likely to have three purposes imbedded in three generic types: investigation, verification, and veneration. In most cases, hagiographical films make biblical references, either textually or visually, in order to maximize each type’s purpose.

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Originally published in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Encyclopedia Series Vol. X (Berlin; New York: Walter De Gruyter Inc., 2015), 1178-1179

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