The Use of the Past to Shape the Present:Shifting Depictions of the Ancient World in Twentieth-Century American Cinema
作者机构：History DepartmentEastern Kentucky UniversityKeith 323521 Lancaster Ave.RichmondKY 40475USA
出 版 物：《Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences》 (复旦人文社会科学论丛（英文版）)
年 卷 期：2019年第12卷第1期
页 面：61-78页
主 题：Film history Ancient history Ancient film epic Intolerance D.W.Griffith Quo Vadis The Egyptian The Ten Commandments Cecil B.DeMille-Spartacus Stanley Kubrick Gladiator 300
摘 要：The ancient film epic has its roots at the very dawn of cinema as a form of popular art and entertainment,with a number of early silent films drawing their plots from ancient Biblical and Classical sources,and the genre remains relevant in the early twenty-first *** film epics thus provide a useful lens through which to trace evolutions in film history and in western culture more *** paper analyzes seven American films spanning the early twentieth century to the early twenty-first century(Intolerance,Quo Vadis,The Egyptian,The Ten Com?***,Gladiator,300),identifying specific ways each film mirrors or challenges the time period in which it was produced.
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