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The Roman salute : cinema, history, ideology / Martin M. Winkler

Author
Winkler, Martin M.
Published
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
xi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
Saluting gestures in Roman art and literature -- Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii -- Raised-arm salutes in the United States before fascism : from the pledge of allegiance to Ben-Hur on stage -- Early cinema : American and European epics -- Cabiria : the intersection of cinema and politics -- Gabriele d'Annunzio and Cabiria -- Fiume : the Roman salute becomes a political symbol -- From D'Annunzio to Mussolini -- Nazi cinema and its impact on Hollywood's Roman epics : from Leni Riefenstahl to Quo vadis -- Visual legacies : antiquity on the screen from Quo vadis to Rome -- Cinema : from Salome to Alexander -- Television : from Star trek to Rome -- Conclusion.
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ISBN
9780814208649 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814208649 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814291948 (CD-ROM)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-212) and indexes.
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