Dateline Special Report

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This paper discusses the prime-time news magazine show Dateline NBC's special report, "The Last Days of Jesus". The paper explains that this program came about following Mel Gibson's controversial movie, "Passion of the Christ". Narrated by NBC's Stone Phillips, the five minute segment squarely and directly addresses the subject of whether or not the Jews killed Jesus. The paper examines the visual imagery and the narration of the report, scene by scene.

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"Millions of moviegoers who saw Mel Gibson's 2004 film Passion of the Christ were inundated with gory images of a man's bloody and beaten body, images that have been handed down through the centuries in Christian iconography and literature. The controversy the film ignited over the implications that the Jews were ruthlessly responsible for the killing of Jesus caused a surge in interest in the subject of Christian history."

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