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Ancient Rome at the Cinema: Story and Spectacle in Hollywood and Rome

Ancient Rome at the Cinema: Story and Spectacle in Hollywood and Rome

Theodorakopoulos, Elena

Paperback

Series: Greece and Rome Live

Literary CriticismAncient RomeFilm Studies

ISBN10: 190467528X
ISBN13: 9781904675280
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Aug 26 2010
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.45 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

'Ancient Rome at the Cinema' is a lucid study of the worlds created in Roman historical epics. Based on analysis of the visual and narrative fabric of seven films set in Ancient Rome, 'Ancient Rome at the Cinema' demonstrates how cinematic versions of Ancient Rome have been able to captivate us, and inscribe their versions of the city and its history onto our imagination. Theodorakopoulos uses film theory and criticism to examine the ways in which historical drama creates the past through story-telling and visual effects. Particular emphasis is put on the tension between narrative and spectacle which is an inherent feature of cinema, and a long-standing preoccupation of film critics and theorists from the 1930s to the present. The book also examines the techniques and the rhetoric of realism which feature especially prominently in historical films.

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