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Designs on the Past
How Hollywood Created the Ancient World
Taschenbuch von Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Sprache: Englisch

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The epic glitter and glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age

In the period 1916-1966, during its so-called Golden Age, Hollywood developed a passion for the ancient world and produced many epic movie blockbusters. The studios used every device they could find to wow audiences with the spectacle of antiquity.

In this unique study, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones shows how Hollywood carefully and skilfully created the popular modern perception of the ancient world. He analyses how producers, art directors, costumiers, publicity agents, movie stars, and inevitably, 'a cast of thousands' literally designed and crafted the ancient world from scratch.

This lively book offers a technical as well as a theoretical guide to a much-neglected area of film studies and reception studies that will appeal to anyone working in these disciplines.

Key Features:

. This is the first study of the mechanisms and ideologies behind the making of epic movies in Hollywood
. Lavishly illustrated including rare and fascinating marketing material and production stills produced by Hollywood at the time
. Explores the casting and consequences of movie stars in historical roles
. Sets a new agenda for exploring the relationship between history and film and between history and visual culture.

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University.
The epic glitter and glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age

In the period 1916-1966, during its so-called Golden Age, Hollywood developed a passion for the ancient world and produced many epic movie blockbusters. The studios used every device they could find to wow audiences with the spectacle of antiquity.

In this unique study, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones shows how Hollywood carefully and skilfully created the popular modern perception of the ancient world. He analyses how producers, art directors, costumiers, publicity agents, movie stars, and inevitably, 'a cast of thousands' literally designed and crafted the ancient world from scratch.

This lively book offers a technical as well as a theoretical guide to a much-neglected area of film studies and reception studies that will appeal to anyone working in these disciplines.

Key Features:

. This is the first study of the mechanisms and ideologies behind the making of epic movies in Hollywood
. Lavishly illustrated including rare and fascinating marketing material and production stills produced by Hollywood at the time
. Explores the casting and consequences of movie stars in historical roles
. Sets a new agenda for exploring the relationship between history and film and between history and visual culture.

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University.
Über den Autor

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University and a specialist in the histories and cultures of ancient Iran and Greece. He also works on dress and gender in antiquity and on the ancient world in popular culture, especially Hollywood cinema. He is the author of "Aphrodite's Tortoise: the veiled woman of Ancient Greece" and "King and Court in Ancient Persia 559-331 BCE" and of "Ctesias' History of Persia". He is editor of "Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World", "Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras", "Creating a Hellenistic World" and "The Hellenistic Court" as well as numerous articles on Greek and Persian culture. Forthcoming work includes "The Culture of Animals in Antiquity" and "Through Esther's Eyes: An Iconographic Exegesis of the Book of Esther". He is the series editor of Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia and co-series editor of Screening Antiquity.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Series Editors' Preface; Movie Trailer; Opening Credits - Epic, History and Hollywood; 1. SEE! SEE! SEE! Hollywood Sells the Past; 2. Illusion Makers: Production Design; 3. Designer History: Costumes; 4. Movie Stars: Casting the Epic Past; End Credits - Why Cleopatra Winks; Bibliography; Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780748675647
ISBN-10: 0748675647
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd
Hersteller: Edinburgh University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 244 x 175 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2018
Gewicht: 0,867 kg
Artikel-ID: 111267692
Über den Autor

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University and a specialist in the histories and cultures of ancient Iran and Greece. He also works on dress and gender in antiquity and on the ancient world in popular culture, especially Hollywood cinema. He is the author of "Aphrodite's Tortoise: the veiled woman of Ancient Greece" and "King and Court in Ancient Persia 559-331 BCE" and of "Ctesias' History of Persia". He is editor of "Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World", "Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras", "Creating a Hellenistic World" and "The Hellenistic Court" as well as numerous articles on Greek and Persian culture. Forthcoming work includes "The Culture of Animals in Antiquity" and "Through Esther's Eyes: An Iconographic Exegesis of the Book of Esther". He is the series editor of Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia and co-series editor of Screening Antiquity.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Series Editors' Preface; Movie Trailer; Opening Credits - Epic, History and Hollywood; 1. SEE! SEE! SEE! Hollywood Sells the Past; 2. Illusion Makers: Production Design; 3. Designer History: Costumes; 4. Movie Stars: Casting the Epic Past; End Credits - Why Cleopatra Winks; Bibliography; Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780748675647
ISBN-10: 0748675647
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd
Hersteller: Edinburgh University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 244 x 175 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2018
Gewicht: 0,867 kg
Artikel-ID: 111267692
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