Imagining ancient cities on film : from Babylon to Cinecitta /: from Babylon to Cinecitta. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Marta García Morcillo, Pauline Hanesworth, Óscar Lapeña Marchena.
• Editors: García Morcillo, Marta; Hanesworth, Pauline; Lapeña Marchena, Óscar
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Cinematic Cityscapes and the Ancient Past Marta García Morcillo and Pauline Hanesworth 2. The Babylon of D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance Michael Seymour 3. City of God: Ancient Jerusalem and the Holy Land In Cinema Leonardo Gregoratti 4. From Ithaca to Troy: The Homeric City in Cinema and Television Francisco Salvador Ventura 5. Utopia: Cinematic Sparta as an Idea (Not A City) Thomas Blank 6. Monuments, Men and Metaphors: Recreating Ancient Athens in Film Pauline Hanesworth 7. City of Lights: Ancient Alexandria in Cinema and Modern Imagination Nacho García 8. The East in the West: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Carthage in Modern Imagery and in Film Marta García Morcillo 9. "Rome is No Longer in Rome": In Search of the Eternal City in Cinema Alberto Prieto Arciniega 10. "It is like Soho, Only Bigger": Doctor Who and Modern Interpretations of Pompeii Rosario Rovira Guardiola 11. The Late Antique City in Movies Filippo Carlà and Andreas Goltz 12. Barbaricum – Civilisation of Savages Martin Lindner 13. Atlantis and Other Fictional Ancient Cities Óscar Lapeña Marchena
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 791.43658; Cities and towns in motion pictures; History, Ancient, in motion pictures; Historical films -- History and criticism; Cities and towns, Ancient
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781135013165
• Related ISBNs: 9781135013172; 9781135013158
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