Hollywood’s Ancient Worlds Jeffrey Richards Hardback Continuum 2008 Film History

Hollywood's Ancient WorldsAuthor(s): Jeffrey Richards\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Hambledon Continuum\nISBN-13: 9781847250070, 978-1847250070\nSynopsis\nThis book offers a new, full analysis of the Ancient World epic and how this film genre continues to comment on modern-day [url] genres have been subject to such critical scorn as the Ancient World epic. Yet they have regularly achieved huge box office success. This book tells the history of the Ancient World epic from the silent screen successes of \""Intolerance\"" and \""The King of Kings\"" through the 'golden age of the epic' in the 1950s (Quo Vadis, Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Cleopatra etc) through to the 1990s revival with \""Gladiator\"", its successors in cinema (Alexander, Troy, 300) and on television (Rome).Geoffrey Richards examines the cultural, social, economical and technological circumstances that dictated the rise and decline of each successive cycle of Ancient World epics, an.