Imagining ancient cities in film : from Babylon to Cinecittà / edited by Marta García Morcillo, Pauline Hanesworth and Oscar Lapeña Marchena.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García Morcillo, Marta, editor.

Hanesworth, Pauline, editor.

Lapeña Marchena, Óscar, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in ancient history ; 9.

Routledge studies in ancient history ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns, Ancient, in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

329 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2015.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415843973

0415843979

OCLC:

894128442