Big Screen RomeJohn Wiley & Sons, 2009 M02 9 - 288 pages Big Screen Rome is the first systematic survey of the most important and popular films from the past half century that reconstruct the image of Roman antiquity.
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... ancient and modern worlds, just before the release of his magnificent biblical epic The Ten Commandments (1956), starring Charlton Heston (Elley, 26). The famous American filmmaker would be pleased but not surprised to know that his ...
... ancient and modern worlds, just before the release of his magnificent biblical epic The Ten Commandments (1956), starring Charlton Heston (Elley, 26). The famous American filmmaker would be pleased but not surprised to know that his ...
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... ancient Roman world onscreen. In so doing, it is important to ask what these films say about our relationship to and our comprehension of the ancient world, and how these cinematic images influence our contact with “real” artifacts from ...
... ancient Roman world onscreen. In so doing, it is important to ask what these films say about our relationship to and our comprehension of the ancient world, and how these cinematic images influence our contact with “real” artifacts from ...
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... Roman” films produced after World War II, they both inherit and originate particular cinematic mythologies and ideologies about ancient Rome. These chapters examine how the films propose a complicated relationship between the audience ...
... Roman” films produced after World War II, they both inherit and originate particular cinematic mythologies and ideologies about ancient Rome. These chapters examine how the films propose a complicated relationship between the audience ...
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... early decade of the 1960s, such as the civil rights movement and the sexual revolution. These two films help us to understand the essentially political nature of our relationship with the image of the ancient Roman past in its symbolic ...
... early decade of the 1960s, such as the civil rights movement and the sexual revolution. These two films help us to understand the essentially political nature of our relationship with the image of the ancient Roman past in its symbolic ...
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Monica Silveira Cyrino. consider the place of heroes in ancient Roman society as well as in our own time. Each chapter treats a single film and provides specific information about the production of the film, such as director, writers ...
Monica Silveira Cyrino. consider the place of heroes in ancient Roman society as well as in our own time. Each chapter treats a single film and provides specific information about the production of the film, such as director, writers ...
Contents
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Chapter 2 The Robe 1953 | 34 |
Chapter 3 BenHur 1959 | 59 |
Chapter 4 Spartacus 1960 | 89 |
Chapter 5 Cleopatra 1963 | 121 |
Chapter 6 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 1966 | 159 |
Chapter 7 Monty Pythons Life of Brian 1979 | 176 |
Chapter 8 History of the World Part I 1981 The Roman Empire Sequence | 194 |
Chapter 9 Gladiator 2000 | 207 |
Bibliography | 257 |
Index | 262 |
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