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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... films about Roman antiquity, both serious and comic. Since then, the integration of classics and popular culture ... epic films, and to Brigitte Lee, who offered graceful and timely suggestions to polish the finished manuscript. All the ...
... films about Roman antiquity, both serious and comic. Since then, the integration of classics and popular culture ... epic films, and to Brigitte Lee, who offered graceful and timely suggestions to polish the finished manuscript. All the ...
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... movie pals Jon Solomon and Lois Kain for their cheerful hospitality during my year at the University of Arizona, and ... epic adventures and instilled in us the same restless energy. Most of all, I want to thank my husband, Brian Cooke ...
... movie pals Jon Solomon and Lois Kain for their cheerful hospitality during my year at the University of Arizona, and ... epic adventures and instilled in us the same restless energy. Most of all, I want to thank my husband, Brian Cooke ...
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... epic films have affirmed his belief. Today more than ever, popular images and stories projected onto movie, television, and computer screens invite us to experience, understand, and connect to the ancient world. Films about antiquity ...
... epic films have affirmed his belief. Today more than ever, popular images and stories projected onto movie, television, and computer screens invite us to experience, understand, and connect to the ancient world. Films about antiquity ...
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... films say about contemporary social and political issues at the time the ... epics from the 1950s, Quo Vadis (1951), The Robe (1953), and Ben-Hur (1959) ... epics is adopted and utilized by this next generation of films. As the changing ...
... films say about contemporary social and political issues at the time the ... epics from the 1950s, Quo Vadis (1951), The Robe (1953), and Ben-Hur (1959) ... epics is adopted and utilized by this next generation of films. As the changing ...
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... epic film. These chapters consider how the comedies take the familiar images of Rome constructed by earlier epics, and proceed to deconstruct them for an amused audience, who are thus challenged to reexamine their secure belief in an ...
... epic film. These chapters consider how the comedies take the familiar images of Rome constructed by earlier epics, and proceed to deconstruct them for an amused audience, who are thus challenged to reexamine their secure belief in an ...
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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