Ancient Rome at the Cinema: Story and Spectacle in Hollywood and Rome - Brossura

Theodorakopoulos, Elena

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ISBN 10: 190467528X ISBN 13: 9781904675280

Casa editrice: Liverpool Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

Filmgoers have long embraced the storied performances, elaborate sets, and epic productions behind film recreations of ancient Rome. Using this fascination with the trappings of realism that fuels our love for historical films, Ancient Rome at the Cinema offers an engaging and lucid portrait of the worlds created in such Roman historical epics as Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Gladiator, and Fellini’s Satyricon. Covering both the commercial and the avant-garde, this volume demonstrates how cinematic versions of Ancient Rome have been able to captivate us, inscribing their versions of the city and its history onto our imagination. Though particular emphasis is placed on the tension between narrative and spectacle in these films, the author uses both film theory and criticism in order to examine the ways in which historical drama creates the past through storytelling and visual effects, culminating in an engaging historical analysis of the art form.

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Elena Theodorakopoulos is a lecturer in classics at the University of Birmingham.

Elena Theodorakopoulos is a lecturer in Classics at the University of Birmingham. She has recently co-edited The Rhetoric of Advice in Greece and Rome (2007) with Diana Spencer and has written chapters for The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, Memory (2007), edited by D. Larmour and D. Spencer, and Blackwell Companion to Catullus (2007), edited by M. Skinner.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Liverpool Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 190467528X
• ISBN 13: 9781904675280
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 195
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile