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Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World
Contributor(s): Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd (Author)
ISBN: 0748675639     ISBN-13: 9780748675630
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
OUR PRICE:   $142.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film - Direction & Production
- History | Ancient - General
Dewey: 791.436
LCCN: 2018289665
Series: Screening Antiquity
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.8" W x 9.7" (2.33 lbs) 440 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
 
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Publisher Description:

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.