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A Semiotic Comparison Between Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to Saint Matthew

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The purpose of this article is to draw a comparison between Mel Gibson’s and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s filmic representations of the Passion of Jesus through semiotic instruments of analysis.

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  1. Department of Communication Studies, University of Siena, via dei pittori 41, Siena, Italy, 53100

    Massimo Leone (Professor)

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University of Siena (Italy) and, in 2004, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley (USA)

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Leone, M. A Semiotic Comparison Between Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to Saint Matthew. Pastoral Psychol 53, 351–360 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-005-1366-y

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