LEADER 05098nam 22006972 450 001 9910823444403321 005 20240314013018.0 010 $a1-107-28957-2 010 $a1-139-89068-9 010 $a1-107-28908-4 010 $a1-107-29397-9 010 $a1-107-29118-6 010 $a1-139-06007-4 010 $a1-107-29013-9 010 $a1-107-29290-5 035 $a(CKB)2550000001138759 035 $a(EBL)1303633 035 $a(OCoLC)859537224 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000985411 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12338247 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000985411 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10932866 035 $a(PQKB)10280880 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139060073 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1303633 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10774065 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL538429 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1303633 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001138759 100 $a20110405d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe ancient world in silent cinema /$fedited by Pantelis Michelakis and Maria Wyke$b[electronic resource] 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (xxi, 379 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-01610-X 311 $a1-306-07178-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $g1.$tIntroduction: silent cinema, antiquity and 'The Exhaustless Urn of Time' /$rPantelis Michelakis and Maria Wyke --$gPart I.$tTheories, Histories, Receptions:$g2.$tThe ancient world on silent film: the view from the archive /$rBryony Dixon;$g3.$tOn visual cogency: the emergence of an antiquity of moving images /$rMarcus Becker;$g4.$tCinema in the time of the pharaoh /$rAntonia Lant;$g5.$t'Hieroglyphics in motion': representing ancient Egypt and the Middle East in film theory and criticism of the silent period /$rLaura Marcus;$g6.$tArchitecture and art dance meet in the ancient world /$rDavid Mayer;$g7.$tAncient Rome in London: classical subjects in the forefront of cinema's expansion after 1910 /$rIan Christie;$g8.$tGloria Swanson as Venus: silent stardom, antiquity and the classical vernacular /$rMichael Williams;$g9.$tHomer in silent cinema /$rPantelis Michelakis --$gPart II.$tMovement, Image, Music, Text::$g10.$tSilent saviours: representations of Jesus' Passion in early cinema /$rCaroline Vander Stichele;$g11.$tThe Kalem Ben-Hur (1907) /$rJon Solomon;$g12.$tJudith's vampish virtue and its double market appeal /$rJudith Buchanan;$g13.$tCompeting ancient worlds in early historical film: the example of Cabiria (1914) /$rAnnette Dorgerloh;$g14.$tPeplum, melodrama and musicality: Giuliano l'Apostata (1919) /$rGiuseppe Pucci;$g15.$t'An orgy Sunday school children can watch': the spectacle of sex and the seduction of spectacle in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923) /$rDavid Shepherd;$g16.$tSilent laughter and the counter-historical: Buster Keaton's Three Ages (1923) /$rMaria Wyke;$g17.$tFrom Roman history to German nationalism: Arminius and Varus in Die Hermannschlacht (1924) /$rMartin M. Winkler;$g18.$tThe 1925 Ben-Hur and the 'Hollywood Question' /$rRuth Scodel;$g19.$tConsuming passions: Helen of Troy in the jazz age /$rMargaret Malamud. 330 $aIn the first four decades of cinema, hundreds of films were made that drew their inspiration from ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Bible. Few of these films have been studied, and even fewer have received the critical attention they deserve. The films in question, ranging from historical and mythological epics to adaptations of ancient drama, burlesques, cartoons and documentaries, suggest a fascination with the ancient world that competes in intensity and breadth with that of Hollywood's classical era. What contribution did antiquity make to the development of early cinema? How did early cinema's representations affect modern understanding of antiquity? Existing prints as well as ephemera scattered in film archives and libraries around the world constitute an enormous field of research. This extensively illustrated edited collection is a first systematic attempt to focus on the instrumental role of silent cinema in twentieth-century conceptions of the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East. 606 $aHistorical films$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSilent films$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCivilization, Ancient, in motion pictures 615 0$aHistorical films$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSilent films$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCivilization, Ancient, in motion pictures. 676 $a791.43/658 686 $aHIS000000$2bisacsh 702 $aMichelakis$b Pantelis 702 $aWyke$b Maria 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823444403321 996 $aThe ancient world in silent cinema$94064104 997 $aUNINA