Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World

by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Book Overview

In the period 1916-1966, during its so-called Golden Age, Hollywood developed a passion for the ancient world and produced many epic movie blockbusters. The studios used every device they could find to wow audiences with the spectacle of antiquity.
In this unique study, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones shows how Hollywood carefully and skilfully created the popular modern perception of the ancient world. He analyses how producers, art directors,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748675639
• ISBN13: 9780748675630
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 2.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.8" x 9.7"