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UNINA9910633950003321 |
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Shlapentokh Vladimir |
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Feudal America : elements of the Middle Ages in contemporary society / / Vladimir Shlapentokh and Joshua Woods |
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University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2011] |
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©2011 |
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1 online resource (x, 170 pages ) |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General |
United States Social conditions 21st century |
United States Economic conditions 21st century |
United States Politics and government 21st century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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"Uses a feudal model to analyze contemporary American society, comparing its essential characteristics to those of medieval European societies"--Provided by publisher. |
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UNINA9910830204703321 |
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Scodel Ruth |
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Whither Quo vadis? / / Ruth Scodel and Anja Bettenworth |
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Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England : , : Blackwell Pub., , [2009] |
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©2009 |
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1-282-11604-5 |
9786612116049 |
1-4443-0612-X |
1-4443-0613-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Motion pictures |
Rome In motion pictures |
Rome On television |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [266]-274) and indexes. |
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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? |
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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 |
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