Hollywood's ancient worlds / Jeffrey Richards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richards, Jeffrey, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epic films--History and criticism.

Epic films.

History, Ancient, in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, New York : Continuum, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Few genres have been subject to such critical scorn as the Ancient World epic. Yet, they have regularly achieved huge box office success. This book tells the history of the Ancient World epic from the silent screen successes of Intolerance and The King of Kings through the 'golden age of the epic' in the 1950s (Quo Vadis, Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Cleopatra etc) through to the 1990s revival with Gladiator, its successors in cinema (Alexander, Troy, 300) and on television (Rome). Geoffrey Richards examines the cultural, social, economical and technological circumstances that dictated the rise and dec

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; 1 The Ancient World: the Nineteenth-Century Context; 2 The Birth of the Ancient World Epic in the Cinema; 3 The 1950s and 1960s: The Roman Empire; 4 The 1950s and 1960s: The Bible; 5 The 1950s and 1960s: Greece and Egypt; 6 The Ancient World Revival; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-87063-7

9786612870637

0-8264-3538-6

OCLC:

676698591