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Receptions of the Ancient Near East in popular culture and beyond / edited by Lorenzo Verderame and Agnès Garcia Ventura.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Western--Middle Eastern influences.
- Civilization, Western.
- Civilization, Ancient, in popular culture.
- Civilization, Ancient.
- Middle East--Civilization--To 622.
- Middle East.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 319 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta, GA : Lockwood Press, 2020.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Visual Arts
- Mesopotamia in Miró. Miró in Mesopotamia p. 11 / Pedro Azara and Marc Marín
- Case Studies in the Popular Reception of the Tell Asmar Sculpture Hoard p. 33 / Jean M. Evans
- Images of Ruins as Metaphorical Places of Transformation: The Case of Persepolis p. 49 / Silvana Di Paolo
- Performing Arts
- Artaserse: An Ancient Oriental Ruler on Modern Opera Stages? p. 63 / Kerstin Dross-Krüpe
- When imitation Became Reality: The Historical Pantomime Sardanapal (1908) at the Royal Opera of Berlin p. 83 / Valeska Hartmann
- Ye Go to Thy Abzu: How Norwegian Black Metal Used Mesopotamian References, Where It Took Them from, and How It Usually Got Them Wrong p. 105 / Daniele Federico Rosa
- Film and Television
- "Babylon's Last Bacchanal": Mesopotamia and the Near East in Epic Biblical Cinema p. 117 / Kevin McGeough
- He Who Saw the Stars: Retelling Gilgamesh in Star Trek: The Next Generation p. 141 / Eva Miller
- Evil from an Ancient Past and the Archaeology OF the Beyond: An Analysis of the Movies The Exorcist (1973) and The Evil Dead (1981) p. 159
- Novels and Comics
- The Ancient Near East in Czech Comics and Popular Culture: The Case of Jáchym and the Printer's Devil p. 181 / Jana Mynárová and Pavel Korínek
- Gilgamesh, The (Super)Hero p. 197 / Luigi Turri
- Mystery Literature and Assyriology p. 217 / Francesco Pomponio
- Ancient Aliens, Modern Cosmologies: Zecharia Sitchin and the Transformation of Mesopotamian Myth p. 237 / Ryan Winters
- Archaeologist in the Middle
- The (In)visibility of Archaeology p. 249 / Davide Nadali
- Imagining the Tower OF Babel in the Twenty-First Century: Is a New Interpretation OF the Ziggurat of Babylon Possible? p. 269 / Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós
- Athletic Disciplines in the Ancient Near East: Representation and Reconstruction p. 287 / Silvia Festuccia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 01, 2020).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Receptions of the Ancient Near East in popular culture and beyond.
- ISBN:
- 1948488256
- 9781948488259
- Publisher Number:
- 99985125369
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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