Ancient Rome at the Cinema: Story and Spectacle in Hollywood and Rome (Greece and Rome Live) - Softcover

Elena Theodorakopoulos

 
9781904675280: Ancient Rome at the Cinema: Story and Spectacle in Hollywood and Rome (Greece and Rome Live)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 190467528X ISBN 13: 9781904675280
Publisher: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2010

Synopsis

- Careful analysis of both Hollywood and avant-garde films, with stress on visual aspects
- Films covered include mainstream blockbusters Ben Hur, Spartacus, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Gladiator and avant-garde productions Fellini's Satyricon and Roma and Julie Taymor's Titus
- Companion volume to the well-received Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture by Gideon Nisbet (now in its second edition)

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About the Author

Elena Theodorakopoulos is a lecturer in Classics at the University of Birmingham. She has recently co-edited 'The Rhetoric of Advice in Greece and Rome' (2007) with Diana Spencer and has written chapters for 'The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, Memory '(2007), edited by D. Larmour and D. Spencer, and 'Blackwell Companion to Catullus' (2007), edited by M. Skinner.

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Publisher
Bristol Phoenix Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
190467528X
ISBN 13 
9781904675280
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
208

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