How Pharaohs Became Media Stars : Ancient Egypt and Popular Culture / / Abraham I. Fernandez Pichel

• Pubblicazione: 2024; [s.l.] : , : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
• Disciplina: 700/.45832; 932
• Soggetto topico: History / Ancient / Egypt; Social Science / Media Studies; Social sciences
• Soggetto geografico: Egypt Social life and customs To 332 B.C In literature; Egypt Mythology In literature; Egypt In motion pictures; Égypte Mœurs et coutumes Jusqu'à 332 av. J.-C Dans la littérature; Egypt
• Persona (resp. second.): Fernández PichelAbraham I (Abraham Ignacio)
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- "Ich mache mir die (ägyptische) Welt, wie sie mir gefällt" (Egypopcult Project) -- Abraham I. Fernández Pichel -- Theories on Pop Culture and Egyptology -- José das Candeias Sales -- The Portrayal of Ancient Egypt in Sir Terry Pratchett's Pyramids -- Filip Taterka -- Pauline Gedge's Hatshepsut: Child of the Morning -- Maiken Mosleth King -- The Persistent Pyramid: Exploring the Creation of Egypt as Religious Foil in Marie Corelli's Ziska -- Sara Woodward -- Stephen Sommers's The Mummy (1999): Modern Legacies of the Tutankhamun Excavations -- Eleanor Dobson -- Josephus as source of the Egyptian sequences in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956) -- Nuno Simões Rodrigues -- From Alma-Tadema to Cecil B. DeMille: The Influence of Nineteenth-Century Painting on Classical Hollywood Films Set in Ancient Egypt -- Guillermo Juberías Gracia -- Some Notes on Sex, Gender and Sexualisation of Ancient Egypt in Contemporary Popular Culture -- Abraham I. Fernández Pichel and Marc Orriols-Llonch -- Eternally Maligned as the Power-hungry Femme Fatale: -- Kleopatra VII in Assassin's Creed Origins and Other Video Games -- Tara Sewell-Lasater -- Egypt and Role-Playing Games. Does the World of Darkness Universe Use Ancient Egyptian Sources? -- Abraham I. Fernández Pichel and Víctor Sánchez Domínguez -- Of Mummies and Memes: A Digital Ethnographic Approach to 'Vernacular Egyptology' on TikTok -- Samuel Fernández-Pichel -- The Road to El ojo de Nefertiti: -- Representing Egyptian Mythology for Middle-grade Readers -- Jesús Cañadas -- Back cover.
• Sommario/riassunto: The appearance of new media and its enormous diffusion in the last decades of the 20th century and up to the present has greatly increased and diversified the reception of Egyptian themes and motifs and Egyptian influence in various cultural spheres. So-called 'popular' or 'pop' culture (cinema, genre fiction, TV-series, comics, graffiti, computer and video games, rock and heavy music, radio serials, among others) often makes use of narratives and motifs drawn from the observation and study of ancient Egypt, updated and reinterpreted in various ways, and which is now the subject of study by scholars of Egyptology. The present monograph seeks to provide new evidence of this interdisciplinarity between Egyptology and popular culture. It explores the conscious reinterpretation of the past in the work of contemporary authors, who shape an image of the Egyptian reality that in each case is determined by their own circumstances and contexts.
• Titolo autorizzato: How Pharaohs Became Media Stars
• ISBN: 9781803276274; 1803276274
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910767593303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Archaeopress Egyptology