Representations of antiquity in film : from Griffith to grindhouse
1. Verfasser: |
McGeough, Kevin M.
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Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Sheffield, South Yorkshire ; Bristol, CT :
Equinox Publishing Ltd.,
2022.
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Umfang/Format: |
xiv, 378 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. |
Schriftenreihe: |
Discourses in ancient near eastern and biblical studies
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Parallelausgabe: |
McGeough, Kevin M., Representations of antiquity in film (Online version:) | ISSN: 9781781799826 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction. The importance of popular culture
- Film as history and history as hyperreality
- Epic Egyptian kitsch : historical thinking and statecraft in the cinematic ancient world
- Nero the Nazi and Akhenaten the Lutheran : the presentism of the ancient world on film
- Evil seductresses, feisty housewives, and the temptation of Victor Mature
- The Judean People's Front and Jesus's mod tour bus : musicals and comedies set in the ancient world
- From the arthouse to the grindhouse : the ancient epic subverted
- Gods, monsters, and musclemen
- Cavegirls and the Upper Paleolithic fur bikini
- The new epic : ultraviolence, comic books, and CGI.