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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... 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 blockbuster ...
... 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 blockbuster ...
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... modern society, allowing filmmakers to use this distant and often romanticized past to comment on the present day. Classicists and film historians are beginning to analyze how and why films appropriate and recreate the ancient Roman ...
... modern society, allowing filmmakers to use this distant and often romanticized past to comment on the present day. Classicists and film historians are beginning to analyze how and why films appropriate and recreate the ancient Roman ...
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Monica Silveira Cyrino. excavated and reconstructed for modern audiences eager to experience a familiar cinematic entertainment, yet one that is still exciting and new. In particular, this book investigates what these historical-themed ...
Monica Silveira Cyrino. excavated and reconstructed for modern audiences eager to experience a familiar cinematic entertainment, yet one that is still exciting and new. In particular, this book investigates what these historical-themed ...
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... modern society. The following three chapters take a unique look at three comedies set in the ancient Roman world, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966), Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), and the Roman Empire sequence ...
... modern society. The following three chapters take a unique look at three comedies set in the ancient Roman world, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966), Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), and the Roman Empire sequence ...
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... modern aspect of autocratic Russia and Germany, Poland's foreign dominators (Wyke, 117–18). “These allegorical strategies at work in the novel Quo Vadis? were then implemented more forcefully in the cinematic reconstructions of Nero as ...
... modern aspect of autocratic Russia and Germany, Poland's foreign dominators (Wyke, 117–18). “These allegorical strategies at work in the novel Quo Vadis? were then implemented more forcefully in the cinematic reconstructions of Nero as ...
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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