Designs on the past: how Hollywood created the Ancient World

Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8174-1964 2018. Designs on the past: how Hollywood created the Ancient World. Screening Antiquity, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:	9780748675630
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 13:29
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/103799

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