Ancient and Classical Civilization in the Movies:
A Bibliography of Materials in the UCB Library












Classics and Cinema.
Edited by Martin M. Winkler. Lewisburg [Pa.]: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses, c1991. Series title: Bucknell review; v. 35, no. 1.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H5 C53 1991)

Cyrino, Monica Silveira.
Big screen Rome Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
MAIN: PN1995.9.R68 C87 2005
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005007235.html

Devore, Gary.
"'I'M QUEER!' 'No! I'M QUEER!': Hollywood Homosexuality and Roman Epic Films." Popular Culture Review. 10 (1): 127-38. 1999 Feb.

Elley, Derek.
The epic film : myth and history London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, c1984.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H5 E4 1984

Gray, Hugh
"When in Rome... (Part I)." The Quarterly of Film Radio and Television, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Spring, 1956), pp. 262-272
UC users only

Imperial projections : ancient Rome in modern popular culture
Edited by Sandra R. Joshel, Margaret Malamud, and Donald T. ...Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.Arethusa books.
Main Stack PN1995.9.R68.I47 2001
Contents via Google books

Lant, Antonia
"The Curse of the Pharoah: Or, How Cinema Contracted Egyptomania." October, vol. 59, pp. 87-112, Winter 1992
UC users only

Malamud, Margaret.
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Brooklyn: Roman Comedy on Broadway and in Film." Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. 8 (3): 33-51. 2001 Winter.

Malamud, Margaret.
"Pyramids in Las Vegas and in Outer Space: Ancient Egypt in Twentieth-Century American Architecture and Film." Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 31-47, Summer 2000

Malamud, Margaret.
"Swords-and-Scandals: Hollywood's Rome During the Great Depression." Arethusa; Winter2008, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p157-183, 27p
UC users only

Ra'ad, Basem.
"Subliminal Filmic Reflections of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Civilizations." Quarterly Review of Film & Video, Oct-Dec2005, Vol. 22 Issue 4, p371-377, 7p
UC users only

Royster, Francesca T.
Becoming Cleopatra : the shifting image of an icon / Francesca T. Royster. 1st ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Main Stack PN57.C55.R69 2003

Schroeder, Caroline T.
"Ancient Egyptian Religion on the Silver Screen: Modern Anxieties about Race, Ethnicity and Religion." Journal of Religion and Film, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 25 paragraphs, Fall 2003

Solomon, Jon.
The Ancient World in the Cinema / Jon Solomon. Revised and expanded. South Brunswick [N.J.]: A. S. Barnes, c1978.
Main Stack PN1995.9.H5.S6 2001
UCB Main PN1995.9.H5 .S6 [earlier edition]
Contents via Google books

Solomon, Jon.
"In the Wake of Cleopatra: The Ancient World in the Cinema since 1963." The Classical Journal. 91 (2): 113-40. 1996 Dec-Jan.
UC users only

Vishnia, Rachel Feig.
"Ancient Rome in Italian cinema under Mussolini: The case of Scipione l'Africano." Italianist, 2008, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p246-267, 22p

Winkler, Martin M.
"Cinema and the Fall of Rome." Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-), Vol. 125, (1995), pp. 135-154
UC users only

Winkler, Martin M.
"The Roman Empire in American Cinema after 1945." Classical Journal. 93(2):167-96. 1998 Dec-Jan
UC users only

Wyke, Maria.
Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema, and History / Maria Wyke. New York: Routledge, 1997. Series title: The new ancient world.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H5 W95 1997
PFA : PN1995.9.H5 W95 1997

Wyke, Maria.
"Ancient Rome and the traditions of film history." Screening the Past, Issue 6 (16 April 1999) pp: 32-

Wyke, Maria.
"Projecting Ancient Rome" In: The historical film : history and memory in media / edited and with an introduction by Marcia Landy. pp: 125-42. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2001. Rutgers depth of field series.
Main Stack PN1995.9.H5.H59 2001
UCB Main PN1995.9.H5 W95 1997 [earlier edition]

Wyke, Maria.
The Roman mistress : ancient and modern representations Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
MAIN: PA6029.L6 W95 2002

Alexander

See Oliver Stone bibliography

Gladiator

See Ridley Scott bibliography

Satyricon

See Federico Fellini bibliography

Spartacus

See Stanley Kubrick bibliography

Julius Caesar

See Shakespeare on Film bibliography

Titus

See Shakespeare on Film bibliography

Troy

Alleva, Richard.
"Mythology lite: Wolfgang Petersen's 'Troy'." Commonweal 131.11 (June 4, 2004): p22(2). (1553 words)

Denby, David. "Heroes."
The New Yorker 80.12 (May 17, 2004): p107. (1643 words)
UC users only

Green, Peter.
"Hype, New Style: "Hollywood Pitted against Homer." Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 171-87, Spring 2004.

Jess, Carolyn.
"Achilles vs. Jason (and the Argonauts): Review of Troy (Petersen, 2004)." Literature-Film Quarterly 33.1 (Jan 2005): p79-80.

Kauffmann, Stanley.
"War Time." (Troy) The New Republic (June 7, 2004): p26. (1095 words)
UC users only

Lowe, Nick
"Beware geeks bearing scripts: Hollywood's Homer and the battle to preserve a tragic credibility." (Troy)(Gladiator: Film and History). TLS. Times Literary Supplement 5279 (June 4, 2004): p18-19.

McDonald, Neil .
"History and Legend." (Film - Charles II: The Power and the Passion; Troy)" Quadrant 48.7-8 (July-August 2004): p90(3). (2260 words)
UC users only

Mendelsohn, Daniel.
"A little Iliad." (Troy)(Movie Review). The New York Review of Books 51.11 (June 24, 2004): p46(4).



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