Ancient Greece In Film And Popular Culture

Klappentext In the wake of Gladiator (2000), Hollywood studios have been rushing to revisit the ancient world. No less than seven production companies have declared their intention to turn Alexander the Great into a wide-screen hero; Brad Pitt is about to appear as Achilles. This book explores the changing fortunes of the heroes of Greek myth and history in the melting pot of popular culture. Using little known examples, classicist and film-fan Gideon Nisbet charts the hidden history of Greece in twentieth-century imagination, from film to science fiction and comics. He unpacks the baggage of ides that continue to make ancient Greece hot property -- sometimes too hot for Hollywood to handle. Zusammenfassung The history of Greece in the twentieth-century imagination - from film to science fiction and comics - traced through popular and little-known examples.

About the author

Gideon Nisbet is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Birmingham.

Product details

• Authors: Gideon Nisbet
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2006
• EAN: 9781904675419
• ISBN: 978-1-904675-41-9
• No. of pages: 170
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Bristol Phoenix Press Greece and Rome Live; Bristol Phoenix Press Greece and Rome Live; Greece and Rome Live
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet