Imagining ancient cities in film : from Babylon to Cinecittà

Weitere Verfasser: García Morcillo, Marta , [HerausgeberIn]
Hanesworth, Pauline, , [HerausgeberIn]
Lapeña Marchena, Óscar, , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Umfang/Format: vi, 329 pages : illustrations.
Schriftenreihe: Routledge studies in ancient history 9
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Online Zugang: Online available (Ebook Central)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: Cinematic cityscapes and the ancient past / Marta García 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 García
  • The East in the West: the rise and fall of ancient Carthage in modern imagery and in film / Marta García 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 Carlà and Andreas Goltz
  • Barbaricum-civilisation of savages / Martin Lindner
  • Atlantis and other fictional ancient cities / Oscar Lapeña Marchena.