1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910633950003321

Autore

Shlapentokh Vladimir

Titolo

Feudal America : elements of the Middle Ages in contemporary society / / Vladimir Shlapentokh and Joshua Woods

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

0-271-05674-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 170 pages )

Disciplina

306.097309051

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General

United States Social conditions 21st century

United States Economic conditions 21st century

United States Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The feudal model in social analysis : from medieval Europe to contemporary America -- Feudal, liberal, and authoritarian models as tools for analyzing the middle ages and contemporary American society -- Big money and corporations as promoters of feudal tendencies -- The feudal model and the organizational level of analysis -- Private coercion : a feudal aspect of contemporary American society -- Personal relations in American politics and business : a feudal phenomenon.

Sommario/riassunto

"Uses a feudal model to analyze contemporary American society, comparing its essential characteristics to those of medieval European societies"--Provided by publisher.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830204703321

Autore

Scodel Ruth

Titolo

Whither Quo vadis? / / Ruth Scodel and Anja Bettenworth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England : , : Blackwell Pub., , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

1-282-11604-5

9786612116049

1-4443-0612-X

1-4443-0613-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Disciplina

791.4375

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Rome In motion pictures

Rome On television

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [266]-274) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Novel and film -- Adapting the narrative -- Gender and ethnicity -- Political institutions, political subtexts -- The Roman people -- Religion and religious authority in Quo vadis? -- Conclusions -- Exkursus : Chilo's mother : a peculiarity of the German translations of Quo vadis?

Sommario/riassunto

Whither Quo Vadis? offers an engaging account of how the Roman world and its history are represented in film and the way in which the different adaptations reflect the shifting historical situations and ideological concerns of their own times. Explores five surviving film adaptations - Guazzoni's of 1912; D'Annunzio/Jacoby of 1925; Mervyn LeRoy's of 1951; the Italian TV mini-series of 1985 by Franco Rossi; and Kawalerowicz's 2001 Polish version Examines how these different versions interpret, select from, and modify the novel and the ancient sources on whic