07-05-2007, 01:08 PM
When I was a little boy my interest for all things Ancient was awaked by Hollywood-movies like Ben-Hur, Quo Vadis etc.
So my favourite "bedside-table-book" is:
Markus Junkelmann:
"Hollywoods Traum von Rom. Gladiator und die Tradition des Monumentalfilms" (Mainz 2004)
It is an in-depth study of the evolution of the "sandal-movie" from the silent movies to "Gladiator" and their historical (in)accuracy.
462 pages full of pictures from wellknown and less known films and the archeological sources.
Does anybody know for example the Italian movie "Scipio l'Africano" (1937) or the (historically very accurate) Polish "Quo Vadis" (2001)?
As far as I know there is no English edition of this book
?:
Btw what about a "best-of" list regarding ancient-films?
Greets,
Decebalus/Andreas Gagelmann
So my favourite "bedside-table-book" is:
Markus Junkelmann:
"Hollywoods Traum von Rom. Gladiator und die Tradition des Monumentalfilms" (Mainz 2004)
It is an in-depth study of the evolution of the "sandal-movie" from the silent movies to "Gladiator" and their historical (in)accuracy.
462 pages full of pictures from wellknown and less known films and the archeological sources.
Does anybody know for example the Italian movie "Scipio l'Africano" (1937) or the (historically very accurate) Polish "Quo Vadis" (2001)?
As far as I know there is no English edition of this book
?: Btw what about a "best-of" list regarding ancient-films?
Greets,
Decebalus/Andreas Gagelmann
Andreas Gagelmann
Berlin, Germany
Berlin, Germany
