The ancient world in the cinema
By: Jon Solomon.
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: Historical films -- History and criticism; Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures
Description: This entertaining and useful book provides a comprehensive survey of films about the ancient world, from The Last Days of Pompeii to Gladiator. Jon Solomon catalogues, describes, and evaluates films set in ancient Greece and Rome, films about Greek and Roman history and mythology, films of the Old and New Testaments, films set in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Persia, films of ancient tragedies, comic films set in the ancient world, and more. The book has been updated to include feature films and made-for-television movies produced in the past two decades. More than two hundred photographs illustrate both the films themselves and the ancient sources from which their imagery derives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-337) and index.