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Description:In the 1st 40 years of cinema, 100s of films were made that drew their inspiration from ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt & the Bible. Few of them have been studied, even fewer have received critical attention. Those in question, ranging from historical & mythological epics to adaptations of ancient drama, burlesques, animated cartoons & documentaries, suggest a preoccupation with antiquity that competes in intensity & breadth with that of Hollywood's classical era. What contribution did worlds of antiquity make to early cinema? How did they themselves change as a result? Existing prints as well as ephemera scattered in archives & libraries constitute an enormous field of research. This edited collection is a 1st systematic attempt to focus on the instrumental role of silent cinema in early 20th-century conceptualizations of the ancient Mediterranean & Middle East.List of IllustrationsList of Colour PlatesList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: silent cinema, antiquity & The Exhaustless Urn of Time/ Michelakis & Wyke1 Theories, Histories, ReceptionsThe ancient world on silent film; the view from the archive/ Bryony DixonOn visual cogency: the emergence of an antiquity of moving images/ Marcus BeckerCinema in the time of the pharaoh/ Antonia Lant Hieroglyphics in motion: representing ancient Egypt & the Middle East in film theory & criticism of the silent period/ Laura MarcusArchitecture & art dance meet in the ancient world/ David MayerAncient Rome in London: classical subjects in the forefront of cinema's expansion after 1910/ Ian ChristieGloria Swanson as Venus: silent stardom, antiquity & the classical vernacular/ Michael WilliamsHomer in silent cinema/ Pantelis Michelakis2 Movement, Image, Music, TextSilent saviours: representations of Jesus' Passion in early cinema/ Caroline Vander SticheleThe Kalem Ben-Hur (1907)/ Jon SolomonJudith's vampish virtue & its double market appeal/ Judith BuchananCompeting ancient worlds in early historical film: the example of Cabiria (1914)/ Annette DorgerlohPeplum, melodrama & musicality: Giuliano l'Apostata (1919)/ Giuseppe PucciAn orgy Sunday school children can watch: the spectacle of sex & the seduction of spectacle in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923)/ David ShepherdSilent laughter & the counter-historical: Buster Keaton's Three Ages (1923)/ Maria WykeFrom Roman history to German nationalism: Arminius & Varus in Die Hermannschlacht (1924)/ Martin M. WinklerThe 1925 Ben-Hur & the Hollywood Question/ Ruth ScodelConsuming passions: Helen of Troy in the jazz age/ Margaret MalamudGeneral BibliographyIndex of Films DiscussedGeneral IndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Ancient World in Silent Cinema. To get started finding The Ancient World in Silent Cinema, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In the 1st 40 years of cinema, 100s of films were made that drew their inspiration from ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt & the Bible. Few of them have been studied, even fewer have received critical attention. Those in question, ranging from historical & mythological epics to adaptations of ancient drama, burlesques, animated cartoons & documentaries, suggest a preoccupation with antiquity that competes in intensity & breadth with that of Hollywood's classical era. What contribution did worlds of antiquity make to early cinema? How did they themselves change as a result? Existing prints as well as ephemera scattered in archives & libraries constitute an enormous field of research. This edited collection is a 1st systematic attempt to focus on the instrumental role of silent cinema in early 20th-century conceptualizations of the ancient Mediterranean & Middle East.List of IllustrationsList of Colour PlatesList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: silent cinema, antiquity & The Exhaustless Urn of Time/ Michelakis & Wyke1 Theories, Histories, ReceptionsThe ancient world on silent film; the view from the archive/ Bryony DixonOn visual cogency: the emergence of an antiquity of moving images/ Marcus BeckerCinema in the time of the pharaoh/ Antonia Lant Hieroglyphics in motion: representing ancient Egypt & the Middle East in film theory & criticism of the silent period/ Laura MarcusArchitecture & art dance meet in the ancient world/ David MayerAncient Rome in London: classical subjects in the forefront of cinema's expansion after 1910/ Ian ChristieGloria Swanson as Venus: silent stardom, antiquity & the classical vernacular/ Michael WilliamsHomer in silent cinema/ Pantelis Michelakis2 Movement, Image, Music, TextSilent saviours: representations of Jesus' Passion in early cinema/ Caroline Vander SticheleThe Kalem Ben-Hur (1907)/ Jon SolomonJudith's vampish virtue & its double market appeal/ Judith BuchananCompeting ancient worlds in early historical film: the example of Cabiria (1914)/ Annette DorgerlohPeplum, melodrama & musicality: Giuliano l'Apostata (1919)/ Giuseppe PucciAn orgy Sunday school children can watch: the spectacle of sex & the seduction of spectacle in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923)/ David ShepherdSilent laughter & the counter-historical: Buster Keaton's Three Ages (1923)/ Maria WykeFrom Roman history to German nationalism: Arminius & Varus in Die Hermannschlacht (1924)/ Martin M. WinklerThe 1925 Ben-Hur & the Hollywood Question/ Ruth ScodelConsuming passions: Helen of Troy in the jazz age/ Margaret MalamudGeneral BibliographyIndex of Films DiscussedGeneral IndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Ancient World in Silent Cinema. To get started finding The Ancient World in Silent Cinema, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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