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Autore |
Scodel Ruth |
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Titolo |
Whither Quo vadis? [[electronic resource] ] : Sienkiewicz's novel in film and television / / Ruth Scodel and Anja Bettenworth |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., 2009 |
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ISBN |
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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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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Electronic books. |
Rome In motion pictures |
Rome On television |
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Formato |
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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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-274) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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