Ancient Worlds in Film and Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Worlds in Film and Television write by Almut-Barbara Renger. This book was released on 2012-11-13. Ancient Worlds in Film and Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume reinvigorates the field of Classical Reception by investigating present-day culture, society, and politics, particularly gender, gender roles, and filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity which shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices.
The Ancient World in the Cinema
The Ancient World in the Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ancient World in the Cinema write by Jon Solomon. This book was released on 2001-01-01. The Ancient World in the Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This entertaining and useful book provides a comprehensive survey of films about the ancient world, from The Last Days of Pompeii to Gladiator. Jon Solomon catalogues, describes, and evaluates films set in ancient Greece and Rome, films about Greek and Roman history and mythology, films of the Old and New Testaments, films set in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Persia, films of ancient tragedies, comic films set in the ancient world, and more. The book has been updated to include feature films and made-for-television movies produced in the past two decades. More than two hundred photographs illustrate both the films themselves and the ancient sources from which their imagery derives.
Projecting the Past
Projecting the Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Projecting the Past write by Maria Wyke. This book was released on 2013-12-02. Projecting the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brought vividly to life on screen, the myth of ancient Rome resonates through modern popular culture. Projecting the Past examines how the cinematic traditions of Hollywood and Italy have resurrected ancient Rome to address the concerns of the present. The book engages contemporary debates about the nature of the classical tradition, definitions of history, and the place of the past in historical film.
A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen
A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen write by Arthur J. Pomeroy. This book was released on 2017-06-01. A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen closely examines the films and TV shows centered on Greek and Roman cultures and explores the tension between pagan and Christian worlds. Written by a team of experts in their fields, this work considers productions that discuss social settings as reflections of their times and as indicative of the technical advances in production and the economics of film and television. Productions included are a mix of Hollywood and European spanning from the silent film era though modern day television series, and topics discussed include Hollywood politics in film, soundtrack and sound design, high art and low art, European art cinemas, and the ancient world as comedy. Written for students of film and television as well as those interested in studies of ancient Rome and Greece, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen provides comprehensive, current thinking on how the depiction of Ancient Greece and Rome on screen has developed over the past century. It reviews how films of the ancient world mirrored shifting attitudes towards Christianity, the impact of changing techniques in film production, and fascinating explorations of science fiction and technical fantasy in the ancient world on popular TV shows like Star Trek, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, and Dr. Who.
Blockbusters and the Ancient World
Blockbusters and the Ancient World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blockbusters and the Ancient World write by Chris Davies. This book was released on 2019-03-21. Blockbusters and the Ancient World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the release of Ridley Scott's Gladiator in 2000 the ancient world epic has experienced a revival in studio and audience interest. Building on existing scholarship on the Cold War epics of the 1950s-60s, including Ben-Hur, Spartacus and The Robe, this original study explores the current cycle of ancient world epics in cinema within the social and political climate created by September 11th 2001. Examining films produced against the backdrop of the War on Terror and subsequent invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, this book assesses the relationship between mainstream cinema and American society through depictions of the ancient world, conflict and faith. Davies explores how these films evoke depictions of the Second World War, the Vietnam War and the Western in portraying warfare in the ancient world, as well as discussing the influence of genre hybridisation, narration and reception theory. He questions the extent to which ancient world epics utilise allegory, analogy and allusion to parallel past and present in an industry often dictated by market forces. Featuring analysis of Alexander, Troy, 300, Centurion, The Eagle, The Passion of the Christ and more, this book offers new insight on the continued evolution of the ancient world epic in cinema.
