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Imagining ancient cities in film : from Babylon to Cinecitta / edited by Marta Garcia Morcillo, Pauline Hanesworth and Oscar Lapena Marchena.
Series: Routledge studies in ancient history ; 9.Publisher: New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Copyright date: 2015Description: vi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780415843973
- 0415843979
- PN 1995.9 .C5126 I43 2015
Contents:
Introduction: Cinematic cityscapes and the ancient past / Marta Garcia Morcillo and Pauline Hanesworth -- The Babylon of D.W. Griffith's Intolerance / Michael Seymour -- City of God: ancient Jerusalem and the Holy Land in cinema / Leonardo Gregoratti -- From Ithaca to Troy: the Homeric city in cinema and television / Francisco Salvador Ventura -- Utopia: cinematic Sparta as an idea (not a city) / Thomas Blank -- Monuments, men and metaphors: recreating ancient Athens in film / Pauline Hanesworth -- City of lights: ancient Alexandria in cinema and modern imagination / Nacho Garcia -- The East in the West: the rise and fall of ancient Carthage in modern imagery and in film / Marta Garcia Morcillo -- "Rome is no longer in Rome": In search of the Eternal City in cinema / Alberto Prieto Arciniega -- "It is like Soho, only bigger" : Doctor Who and modern interpretations of Pompeii / Rosario Rovira Guardiola -- The late antique city in movies / Filippo Carla and Andreas Goltz -- Barbaricum-civilisation of savages / Martin Lindner -- Atlantis and other fictional ancient cities / Oscar Lapena Marchena.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | PN 1995.9 .C5126 I43 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5176169 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-307) and index.
Includes filmography.
Introduction: Cinematic cityscapes and the ancient past / Marta Garcia Morcillo and Pauline Hanesworth -- The Babylon of D.W. Griffith's Intolerance / Michael Seymour -- City of God: ancient Jerusalem and the Holy Land in cinema / Leonardo Gregoratti -- From Ithaca to Troy: the Homeric city in cinema and television / Francisco Salvador Ventura -- Utopia: cinematic Sparta as an idea (not a city) / Thomas Blank -- Monuments, men and metaphors: recreating ancient Athens in film / Pauline Hanesworth -- City of lights: ancient Alexandria in cinema and modern imagination / Nacho Garcia -- The East in the West: the rise and fall of ancient Carthage in modern imagery and in film / Marta Garcia Morcillo -- "Rome is no longer in Rome": In search of the Eternal City in cinema / Alberto Prieto Arciniega -- "It is like Soho, only bigger" : Doctor Who and modern interpretations of Pompeii / Rosario Rovira Guardiola -- The late antique city in movies / Filippo Carla and Andreas Goltz -- Barbaricum-civilisation of savages / Martin Lindner -- Atlantis and other fictional ancient cities / Oscar Lapena Marchena.
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