TY - BOOK AU - Garcia Morcillo,Marta AU - Hanesworth,Pauline AU - Lapena Marchena,Oscar TI - Imagining ancient cities in film: from Babylon to Cinecitta T2 - Routledge studies in ancient history SN - 9780415843973 AV - PN 1995.9 .C5126 I43 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - New York, London PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group KW - Cities and towns, Ancient, in motion pictures KW - fast KW - Film KW - gnd KW - Stadt KW - Altertum N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-307) and index; Includes filmography; Introduction: Cinematic cityscapes and the ancient past / Marta Garcia Morcillo and Pauline Hanesworth -- The Babylon of D.W. Griffith's Intolerance / Michael Seymour -- City of God: ancient Jerusalem and the Holy Land in cinema / Leonardo Gregoratti -- From Ithaca to Troy: the Homeric city in cinema and television / Francisco Salvador Ventura -- Utopia: cinematic Sparta as an idea (not a city) / Thomas Blank -- Monuments, men and metaphors: recreating ancient Athens in film / Pauline Hanesworth -- City of lights: ancient Alexandria in cinema and modern imagination / Nacho Garcia -- The East in the West: the rise and fall of ancient Carthage in modern imagery and in film / Marta Garcia Morcillo -- "Rome is no longer in Rome": In search of the Eternal City in cinema / Alberto Prieto Arciniega -- "It is like Soho, only bigger" : Doctor Who and modern interpretations of Pompeii / Rosario Rovira Guardiola -- The late antique city in movies / Filippo Carla and Andreas Goltz -- Barbaricum-civilisation of savages / Martin Lindner -- Atlantis and other fictional ancient cities / Oscar Lapena Marchena ER -