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1 online resource (567 pages) |
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Ser |
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Ser
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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 |
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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 |
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Revolutionizing the Big ScreenThe First Blockbuster; A Galaxy of International Stars; Runaway Antiquity; 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 |
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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 |
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ReferencesFurther 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) |
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Rome on the Comic Screen |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- In motion pictures
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Rome -- In motion pictures.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91003865
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Greece
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Rome (Empire)
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118741290 |
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1118741293 |
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