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kobvindex_INTEBC4875208
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1 online resource (567 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781118741290
Series Statement:
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Series
Note:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I The Development of the Depiction of Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen -- Chapter 1 Greece and Rome on Screen: On the Possibilities and Promises of a New Medium -- Film or Cinema? -- Which Antiquity? -- Spectatorship -- Color -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2 The Creation of the Epic: Italian Silent Film to 1915 -- An Outline of Italy's Social and Ideological History -- The Origins of Italian Film‐making -- Peplum: Historical and Epic Films -- Cabiria as the Apex of Historical Films -- Pastrone and Griffith -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3 From 1916 to the Arrival of Sound: The Systematization, Expressivity and Self-reflection of the Feature Film -- Repetition: Quo Vadis? (UCI, Italy, 1924, dir. Gabriellino D'Annunzio and Georg Jacoby) -- The Hollywood Star System: Cleopatra (Fox, USA, 1917, dir. J. Gordon Edwards) -- The Hollywood Studio System: Ben-Hur (MGM, USA, 1925, dir. Fred Niblo) -- National Cinema: Helen of Troy (Helena, Bavaria Film, Germany, 1924, dir. Manfred Noa) -- Edification and Titillation: Ways to Strength and Beauty (Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit: Ein Film über modern Körperkultur, UFA, Germany, 1925, dir. Wilhelm Prager) -- Intermediality and the Art of Cinema: The Slave of Phydias (L'Esclave de Phidias, Gaumont, France, 1917, dir. Léonce Perret) -- Self-Reflection: La conquête des Gaules (The Conquest of Gaul, Les Films YDB, France, 1922, dir. Marcel Yonnet and Yann B. Dyl) -- The Transition to Sound -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4 The Resurgence of Epics in the 1950s: Classical Antiquity in Post-war Hollywood -- An Industry in Crisis -- Revolutionizing the Big Screen -- The First Blockbuster -- A Galaxy of International Stars -- Runaway Antiquity
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Chapter 20 "Soft" Science Fiction and Technical Fantasy: The Ancient World in Star Trek, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica and Dr Who -- Preliminary Remarks -- Mythology, Oracles, and Narrative Structure -- Philosophy -- History -- References -- Chapter 21 The Ancient World is Part of Us: Classical Tragedy in Modern Film and Television -- Theoretical Concerns: "Borrowing" from Adaptation Studies? -- Looking for Electra -- Shades of Electra -- Conclusion: The Pleasures and Uses of Intertextuality -- Notes -- References -- Filmography -- Further Reading -- Chapter 22 Ancient World Documentaries -- Authored Narratives-Narratives of Authority -- Travels Through Antiquity -- Dramatizing Antiquity -- List of Ancient World Documentaries -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 23 Mythology for the Young at Heart -- Tales of Different Worlds -- Once Upon a Time, Zeus had a Son -- The Long Journey Home -- The Past is a Foreign Country -- Truth Be Told -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Index -- EULA
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Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5 Hollywood Ascendant: Ben-Hur and Spartacus -- I See Red: The Political Context -- Epic Profits: The Commercial Context -- Big Ben -- Playing Fast and Loose with Spartacus -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 The Peplum Era -- Italian Historical Films -- Peplum Humor -- The Peplum Filone -- The Gladiator Peplum -- The Peplum Audience -- The End of the Peplum -- References -- Part II Comedy, Drama, and Adaptation -- Chapter 7 Hollywood Meets Art-House Cinema: Michael Cacoyannis's "Hybrid" Euripidean Trilogy -- A "Hybrid" Style -- Beginnings and Endings -- Heroines and Villains in Close‐Up -- Ruins and Landscapes -- Fidelity or Interpretation? -- Greek Cinema and Theater -- Reception -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8 Greek Tragedy as Theater in Screen-Media -- Theatrical Document and/or Screen Art -- Hybrid by Design, Televised Live -- Cinematic Ends for Stage Performance -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 9 Greece and Rome on the Comic Screen -- Ancient Greece on Screen -- Rome on the Comic Screen -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 10 The Return of a Genre -- Decadence -- Moral Deviance -- New Directions -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 11 Franco Rossi's Adaptations of the Classics -- Franco Rossi -- Adaptation: The Aeneid -- Adaptation: A Persistent Theme -- Rossi and Greek and Roman Film Studies -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12 I, Claudius and Ancient Rome as Televised Period Drama -- Production: The BBC and British Drama in the Mid-1970s -- Setting the Scene: The Opening Scenes of I, Claudius -- Adapting the Novel -- The Impact of I, Claudius on Later Screen Representations of Rome -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13 Premium Cable Television
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HBO Rome (2005-2007) -- STARZ Spartacus (2010-2013) -- References -- Chapter 14 Thinking through the Ancient World: "Late Antique Movies" as a Mirror of Shifting Attitudes towards Christian Religion -- Late Antiquity in Film: From Silent Movies to the Age of Peplum -- Shifting Attitudes: New Paradigms on Late Antiquity and the Authorial Movies of the 1970s -- Secularization and Late Antiquity: The 2000s -- Conclusion? Signs of a Christian Comeback -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 15 Non-western Approaches to the Ancient World: India and Japan-Classical Heritage or Exotic Occidentalism? -- India-European Antiquity and "The Birth of the Indian Nation" -- Japan-Welcome to the Land of Anime With a Touch of European Antiquity! -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Part III Film Production and Ancient World Cinema -- Chapter 16 Man to Man: Music and Masculine Relations in Ben-Hur (1925 and 1959) -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 17 Visual Poetry on Screen: Sets and Costumes for Ancient Greek Tragedy -- From the Fantasies of Méliès to the Glamour of Hollywood -- Flavio Mogherini, Cinecittà and the Triumph of Hercules -- The Four Faces of Greek Tragedy in Film -- Oedipus and Orestes According to Dionysis Fotopoulos -- Iphigenia, the Pinnacle of Scenography -- Epilogue of a Genre -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 18 Filming the Ancient World: Have Film Historians Made a Spectacular Omission of Epic Proportions? -- References -- Part IV The Ancient World as an Idea -- Chapter 19 High Art and Low Art Expectations: Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture -- In Search of the Popular -- Looking for Greece in Popular Film -- Hercules and the Power of Myth -- The Rise of Peplum Cinema -- The Mythic Recipe for Popular Success -- The Bigger Picture -- References
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Print version Pomeroy, Arthur J. A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2017 ISBN 9781118741351
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