Book contents
- The Ancient World in Silent Cinema
- The Ancient World in Silent Cinema
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Colour plates
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: silent cinema, antiquity and ‘the exhaustless urn of time’
- Part I Theories, histories, receptions
- Part II Movement, image, music, text
- 10 Silent Saviours: representations of Jesus’ Passion in early cinema
- 11 The Kalem Ben-Hur (1907)
- 12 Judith’s vampish virtue and its double market appeal
- 13 Competing ancient worlds in early historical film: the example of Cabiria (1914)
- 14 Peplum, melodrama and musicality: Giuliano l’Apostata (1919)
- 15 ‘An orgy Sunday School children can watch’: the spectacle of sex and the seduction of spectacle in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923)
- 16 Silent laughter and the counter-historical: Buster Keaton’s Three Ages (1923)
- 17 From Roman history to German nationalism: Arminius and Varus in Die Hermannschlacht (1924)
- 18 The 1925 Ben-Hur and the ‘Hollywood Question’
- 19 Consuming passions: Helen of Troy in the jazz age
- Plates
- General bibliography
- Index of films discussed
- General index
15 - ‘An orgy Sunday School children can watch’: the spectacle of sex and the seduction of spectacle in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923)
from Part II - Movement, image, music, text
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2013
Book contents
- The Ancient World in Silent Cinema
- The Ancient World in Silent Cinema
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Colour plates
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: silent cinema, antiquity and ‘the exhaustless urn of time’
- Part I Theories, histories, receptions
- Part II Movement, image, music, text
- 10 Silent Saviours: representations of Jesus’ Passion in early cinema
- 11 The Kalem Ben-Hur (1907)
- 12 Judith’s vampish virtue and its double market appeal
- 13 Competing ancient worlds in early historical film: the example of Cabiria (1914)
- 14 Peplum, melodrama and musicality: Giuliano l’Apostata (1919)
- 15 ‘An orgy Sunday School children can watch’: the spectacle of sex and the seduction of spectacle in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1923)
- 16 Silent laughter and the counter-historical: Buster Keaton’s Three Ages (1923)
- 17 From Roman history to German nationalism: Arminius and Varus in Die Hermannschlacht (1924)
- 18 The 1925 Ben-Hur and the ‘Hollywood Question’
- 19 Consuming passions: Helen of Troy in the jazz age
- Plates
- General bibliography
- Index of films discussed
- General index
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- The Ancient World in Silent Cinema , pp. 262 - 274Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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