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Imagining Ancient Cities in Film - From Babylon to Cinecitta (Paperback)
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Imagining Ancient Cities in Film - From Babylon to Cinecitta (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History
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In film imagery, urban spaces show up not only as spatial settings
of a story, but also as projected ideas and forms that aim to
recreate and capture the spirit of cultures, societies and epochs.
Some cinematic cities have even managed to transcend fiction to
become part of modern collective memory. Can we imagine a
futuristic city not inspired at least remotely by Fritz Lang's
Metropolis? In the same way, ancient Babylon, Troy and Rome can
hardly be shaped in popular imagination without conscious or
subconscious references to the striking visions of Griffiths'
Intolerance, Petersen's Troy and Scott's Gladiator, to mention only
a few influential examples. Imagining Ancient Cities in Film
explores for the first time in scholarship film representations of
cities of the Ancient World from early cinema to the 21st century.
The volume analyzes the different choices made by filmmakers, art
designers and screen writers to recreate ancient urban spaces as
more or less convincing settings of mythical and historical events.
In looking behind and beyond intended archaeological accuracy,
symbolic fantasy, primitivism, exoticism and Hollywood-esque
monumentality, this volume pays particular attention to the
depiction of cities as faces of ancient civilizations, but also as
containers of moral ideas and cultural fashions deeply rooted in
the contemporary zeitgeist and in continuously revisited
traditions.
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