The Bible in Motion by Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch

Author:Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2016-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

Mary and Magdalene: Parallel Lives

The contributions of Mary and Magdalene to the New Testament cinematic narratives fuel feminist arguments (both positively and negatively), while the physical features of the women who interpret the roles are pondered over in discussions about inculturation. The one-time Western bias of envisaging Mary in art as a Caucasian woman with blue eyes was often reflected in Hollywood’s lack of attention to ethnicity (with the selection of the Irish Siobhan McKenna as Mary in Ray’s King of Kings being a notable example). However, there are now films from across the globe – such as Mexico’s El mártir del Calvario (dir. Miguel Morayta, 1952), South Africa’s Son of Man (dir. Mark Dornford-May, 2006) and India’s Karunamayudu (dir. A. Bheem Singh, 1978, a.k.a. Dayasagar) – in which actresses from different continents have personified the two Jewish women from Israel. In the twenty-first century, the casting choices have evoked serious commentary about religion, race, and age. A Jewish actress named Maia Morgenstern played Mary in Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ; Jean Claude La Marre’s Color of the Cross (2006) and Dornford-May’s Son of Man generated discussions about the cultural significance of Black Madonnas; and notably younger actresses have begun to play the part of Mary in the Nativity scenes (such as the sixteen-year old Keisha Castle-Hughes in Catherine Hardwicke’s The Nativity Story in 2006).

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