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Aprašymas

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.
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List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: silent cinema, antiquity & The Exhaustless Urn of Time/ Michelakis & Wyke
1 Theories, Histories, Receptions
The ancient world on silent film; the view from the archive/ Bryony Dixon
On visual cogency: the emergence of an antiquity of moving images/ Marcus Becker
Cinema 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 Marcus
Architecture & art dance meet in the ancient world/ David Mayer
Ancient Rome in London: classical subjects in the forefront of cinema's expansion after 1910/ Ian Christie
Gloria Swanson as Venus: silent stardom, antiquity & the classical vernacular/ Michael Williams
Homer in silent cinema/ Pantelis Michelakis
2 Movement, Image, Music, Text
Silent saviours: representations of Jesus' Passion in early cinema/ Caroline Vander Stichele
The Kalem Ben-Hur (1907)/ Jon Solomon
Judith's vampish virtue & its double market appeal/ Judith Buchanan
Competing ancient worlds in early historical film: the example of Cabiria (1914)/ Annette Dorgerloh
Peplum, melodrama & musicality: Giuliano l'Apostata (1919)/ Giuseppe Pucci
An orgy Sunday school children can watch: the spectacle of sex & the seduction of spectacle in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923)/ David Shepherd
Silent laughter & the counter-historical: Buster Keaton's Three Ages (1923)/ Maria Wyke
From Roman history to German nationalism: Arminius & Varus in Die Hermannschlacht (1924)/ Martin M. Winkler
The 1925 Ben-Hur & the Hollywood Question/ Ruth Scodel
Consuming passions: Helen of Troy in the jazz age/ Margaret Malamud
General Bibliography
Index of Films Discussed
General Index