Ancient Rome at the cinema: story and spectacle in Hollywood and Rome/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Exeter:
Bristol Phoenix Press,
c2010
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| Series: | Greece and Rome live (Bristol Phoenix Press)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Narrative and spectacle, realism and illusion, and the historical film
- Ben-Hur : 'tale of the Christ' or tale of Rome?
- Spartacus and the politics of story-telling
- The fall of the Roman Empire : the filmmaker as historian
- Gladiator : making it new?
- Fellini Satyricon : 'farewell to antiquity' or 'daily life in ancient Rome'?
- Titus : Rome and the penny arcade
- Conclusion.