The Roman Salute [electronic resource] : Cinema, History, Ideology / Martin M. Winkler.
Material type: TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2009. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xi, 223 p. :) illContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780814271698
- 0814271693
- 700/.45837 22
- PN1995.9.R68 W56 2009
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-212) and indexes.
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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