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A companion to ancient Greece and Rome on screen

Pomeroy, Arthur John, 1953-2025, editor.

A companion to ancient Greece and Rome on screen

Pomeroy, Arthur John, 1953-2025, editor.

9781118741382

9781118741290

9781118741443

1 online resource (xiii, 550 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history.

Introduction / 1. Greece and Rome on screen: on the possibilities and promises of a new medium / 2. The creation of the epic: Italian silent film to 1915 / 3. From 1916 to the arrival of sound: the systemization, expressivity and self-reflection of the featured film / 4. The resurgence of epics in the 1950s: classical antiquity in post-war Hollywood / 5. Hollywood ascendant: Ben-Hur and Spartacus / 6. The peplum era / 7. Hollywood meets art-house cinema: Michael Cacoyannis's "hybrid" Euripidean trilogy / 8. Greek tragedy as theater in screen-media / 9 . Greece and Rome on the comic screen / 10. The return of a genre / 11. Franco Rossi's adaptations of the classics / 12. I, Claudius and ancient Rome as televised period drama / 13. Premium cable television / 14. Thinking through the ancient world: "late antique movies" as a mirror of shifting attitudes towards Christian religion / 15. Non-western approaches to the ancient world: India and Japan -- classical heritage or exotic occidentalism? / 16. Man to man: music and masculine relations in Ben-Hur (1925 and 1959) / 17. Visual poetry on screen: sets and costumes for ancient Greek tragedy / 18. Filming the ancient world: have film historians made a spectacular omission of epic proportions? / 19. High art and low art expectations: ancient Greece in film and popular culture / 20. "Soft" science fiction and technical fantasy: the ancient world in Star Trek, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica and Dr Who / 21. The ancient world is part of us: classical tragedy in modern film and television / 22. Ancient world documentaries / 23. Mythology for the young at heart

"A comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen closely examines the films and TV shows centered on Greek and Roman cultures and explores the tension between pagan and Christian worlds. Written by a team of experts in their fields, this work considers productions that discuss social settings as reflections of their times and as indicative of the technical advances in production and the economics of film and television. Productions included are a mix of Hollywood and European spanning from the silent film era though modern day television series, and topics discussed include Hollywood politics in film, soundtrack and sound design, high art and low art, European art cinemas, and the ancient world as comedy. Written for students of film and television as well as those interested in studies of ancient Rome and Greece, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen provides comprehensive, current thinking on how the depiction of Ancient Greece and Rome on screen has developed over the past century. It reviews how films of the ancient world mirrored shifting attitudes towards Christianity, the impact of changing techniques in film production, and fascinating explorations of science fiction and technical fantasy in the ancient world on popular TV shows like Star Trek, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, and Dr. Who."--Provided by publisher.

John Wiley and Sons

PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.

Ancient & Classical.

LITERARY CRITICISM.

Motion pictures

Greece -- In motion pictures.

Rome -- In motion pictures.

Grèce -- Au cinéma.

Rome -- Au cinéma.

Greece

Rome (Empire)

Electronic books.

Motion pictures

Motion pictures.

Films.

Pomeroy, Arthur John, 1953-2025,

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118741382