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Imagining ancient cities in film : from Babylon to Cinecittà

Title: Imagining ancient cities in film : from Babylon to Cinecittà / edited by Marta García Morcillo, Pauline Hanesworth and Oscar Lapeña Marchena.
Publication: New York : Routledge, 2015.

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vi, 329 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Routledge studies in ancient history ; 9

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in ancient history ; 9.

Subject

Cities and towns, Ancient, in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-307), filmography (pages 275-281) and index.

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.

Call Number

MFL 15-5198

ISBN

9780415843973
0415843979

LCCN

2014036833

OCLC

894128442

Title

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

Publisher

New York : Routledge, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in ancient history ; 9

Routledge studies in ancient history ; 9.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-307), filmography (pages 275-281) and index.

Added Author

García Morcillo, Marta, editor.

Hanesworth, Pauline, editor.

Lapeña Marchena, Óscar, editor.

Research Call Number

MFL 15-5198

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