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
- 2 The ancient world on silent film: the view from the archive
- 3 On visual cogency: the emergence of an antiquity of moving images
- 4 Cinema in the time of the pharaohs
- 5 ‘Hieroglyphics in motion’: representing ancient Egypt and the Middle East in film theory and criticism of the silent period
- 6 Architecture and art dance meet in the ancient world
- 7 Ancient Rome in London: classical subjects in the forefront of cinema’s expansion after 1910
- 8 Gloria Swanson as Venus: silent stardom, antiquity and the classical vernacular
- 9 Homer in silent cinema
- Part II Movement, image, music, text
- Plates
- General bibliography
- Index of films discussed
- General index
7 - Ancient Rome in London: classical subjects in the forefront of cinema’s expansion after 1910
from Part I - Theories, histories, receptions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2013
- 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
- 2 The ancient world on silent film: the view from the archive
- 3 On visual cogency: the emergence of an antiquity of moving images
- 4 Cinema in the time of the pharaohs
- 5 ‘Hieroglyphics in motion’: representing ancient Egypt and the Middle East in film theory and criticism of the silent period
- 6 Architecture and art dance meet in the ancient world
- 7 Ancient Rome in London: classical subjects in the forefront of cinema’s expansion after 1910
- 8 Gloria Swanson as Venus: silent stardom, antiquity and the classical vernacular
- 9 Homer in silent cinema
- Part II Movement, image, music, text
- Plates
- General bibliography
- Index of films discussed
- General index
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- The Ancient World in Silent Cinema , pp. 109 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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