Annotation
The notorious thesis about the biblical foundations of the European culture will be this time proved and applied on the history of European music, theatre and cinema. The lecture offers an analysis of selected works of art based on plots from the Bible, particularly from the Gospel, transformed according to different aesthetics and genres: the
Gregorian Chant, the Bach´s Matthew Passion, naive popular Christmas and Passion plays, the Marian mysteries in the work of Bohuslav Martinů, Gospel made into films: Franco Zeffirelli, P. P. Pasolini, Mel Gibson, The Life of
Brian, The Last Temptation of Christ, Jesus Christ Super Star, „gay Passion“ of Terrence McNally and other works.
The basic method of the course consists in commenting visual or acoustic extracts of the works.