| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 329 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge studies in ancient history ; 9 |
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Routledge studies in ancient history ; 9.
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| 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 / Óscar Lapeña Marchena |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Includes filmography |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cities and towns, Ancient, in motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Cities and towns, Ancient, in motion pictures
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Klassieke oudheid.
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Steden.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
García Morcillo, Marta, editor.
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Hanesworth, Pauline, editor.
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Lapeña Marchena, Óscar, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781135013172 |
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1135013179 |
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9780203752319 |
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0203752317 |
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9781135013158 |
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1135013152 |
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9781135013165 |
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1135013160 |
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