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An unparalleled exploration of films set in Ancient Rome, from the silent Cleopatra to the modern rendition of Ben-Hur. No sooner had the dazzling new technology of cinema been invented near the end of the 19th century than filmmakers immediately turned to ancient history for inspiration. Nero, Cleopatra, Caesar, and more all found their way to the silver screen and would return again and again in the decades that followed. But just how accurate were these depictions of Ancient Rome? In Ancient Rome on the Silver Screen: Myth versus Reality, Gregory S. Aldrete and Graham Sumner provide a fascinating examination of 50 films set in Ancient Rome, analyzing each for its historical accuracy of plot, characters, costumes and sets. They also divulge insights into the process of making each movie and the challenges the filmmakers faced in bringing the Roman world to vivid cinematic life. Beginning with the classics from the dawn of cinema, through the great golden age of sword-and-sandals flicks in the 1950s, to the dramatic epics of the modern day, Aldrete and Sumner test the authenticity of Hollywood's version of history. Featuring remarkable custom-made paintings depicting characters as they appeared in film and how they should have appeared if they were historically correct, Ancient Rome on the Silver Screen delivers an invaluable perspective of film and history. This unique collaboration between professional illustrator and award-winning Roman historian offers a deeper understanding of modern cinema and brings Roman history to life.

Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures. --- Historical films --- History and criticism. --- Rome --- In motion pictures. --- Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures --- History and criticism

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"Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare on Film is the first volume exclusively dedicated to the study of a theme that informs virtually every reimagining of the classical world on the big screen: armed conflict. Through a vast array of case studies, from the silent era to recent years, the collection traces cinema's enduring fascination with battles and violence in antiquity and explores the reasons, both synchronic and diachronic, for the central place that war occupies in celluloid Greece and Rome. Situating films in their artistic, economic, and sociopolitical context, the essays cast light on the industrial mechanisms through which the ancient battlefield is refashioned in cinema and investigate why the medium adopts a revisionist approach to textual and visual sources. Contributors are: Oskar Aguado-Cantabrana, Jeremy Armstrong, Djoymi Baker, Anastasia Bakogianni, Irene Berti, Lee L. Brice, Hannah-Marie Chidwick, Kaiti Diamantakou, Sea´n Easton, Renata Senna Garraffoni, Elias Koulakiotis, O´scar Lapen~a, Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos, Arthur J. Pomeroy, Owen Rees, Robert A. Rushing, Patricia Salzman-Mitchell, Jonathan Stubbs, Michael Williams, Jorit Wintjes"--

War films --- Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures. --- History and criticism. --- Greece --- Rome --- In motion pictures.

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Egyptology --- Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures --- Egypt --- In motion pictures. --- Civilization --- Influence. --- Antiquities. --- In mass media. --- Description and travel.

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Le péplum est un cinéma de mauvais genre. Il raconte des histoires qui se déroulent en des temps mythiques ou lointains. Il chante les exploits de héros bodybuildés et d'héroïnes chastement dévêtues. Genre populaire et familial, il est obligé de tortiller de la caméra pour raconter les amours bibliques, les orgies romaines, les empereurs fous et les impératrices lubriques - sans choquer personne mais quand même. Et pourtant, souvent faits avec trois francs six sous, tournés à la va-vite dans des décors de carton-pâte, troussant la muse de l'Histoire pour en montrer les dessous affriolants, ces films révèlent une autre Antiquité, sortie des manuels poussiéreux. Une Antiquité en technicolor et en relief, une Antiquité doublement vivante : à la fois parce qu'elle illustre nos fantasmes et parce qu'en voulant raconter le passé, elle nous parle en fait du présent.

Peplum films History and criticism --- Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures --- Civilisation ancienne au cinéma --- Civilisation ancienne au cinéma --- Péplums --- Civilisation antique --- Histoire et critique --- Au cinéma

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- Ancient Rome, cinema and history##- Projecting ancient Rome##- Spartacus: testing the strength of the body politic##- Cleopatra: spectacles of seduction and conquest##- Nero: spectacles of persecution and excess##- Pompeii: purging the sins of the city##- A farewell to antiquity.

#SBIB:309H1326 --- #SBIB:309H521 --- #SBIB:AANKOOP --- Films met een amusementsfunctie en/of esthetische functie: genres en richtingen --- Audiovisuele communicatie: inhoudsanalyse: onderzoekingen --- Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures. --- Historical films --- History and criticism. --- Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures --- History and criticism --- Rome --- In motion pictures. --- Motion pictures