Ebook: A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I The Development of the Depiction of Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen; Chapter 1 Greece and Rome on Screen: On the Possibilities and Promises of a New Medium; Film or Cinema?; Which Antiquity?; Spectatorship; Color; Conclusion; References; Further Reading; Chapter 2 The Creation of the Epic: Italian Silent Film to 1915 ; An Outline of Italy's Social and Ideological History; The Origins of Italian Film-making; Peplum: Historical and Epic Films; Cabiria as the Apex of Historical Films; Pastrone and Griffith; Notes.