Format:
1 online resource (vi, 329 pages)
ISBN:
9781135013172
,
9781135013158
,
9781135013165
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in ancient history 9
Content:
1. Introduction : cinematic cityscapes and the ancient past / Marta Garcia Morcillo and Pauline Hanesworth -- 2. The Babylon of D.W. Griffith's Intolerance / Michael Seymour -- 3. City of God : ancient Jerusalem and the Holy Land in cinema / Leonardo Gregoratti -- 4. From Ithaca to Troy : the Homeric city in cinema and television / Francisco Salvador Ventura -- 5. Utopia : cinematic Sparta as an idea (not a city) / Thomas Blank -- 6. Monuments, men and metaphors : recreating ancient Athens in film / Pauline Hanesworth -- 7. City of lights : ancient Alexandria in cinema and modern imagination / Nacho Garcia -- 8. The East in the West : the rise and fall of ancient Carthage in modern imagery and in film / Marta Garcia Morcillo -- 9. "Rome is no longer in Rome" : in search of the Eternal City in cinema / Alberto Prieto Arciniega -- 10. "It is like Soho, only bigger" : Doctor Who and modern interpretations of Pompeii / Rosario Rovira Guardiola -- 11. The late antique city in movies / Filippo Carla and Andreas Goltz -- 12. Barbaricum : civilisation of savages / Martin Lindner -- 13. Atlantis and other fictional ancient cities / Oscar Lapena Marchena.
Note:
Filmography (pages [275]-281)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415843973
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415843973
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203752319
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