Playing Out the Empire by Mayer, David;

Ben-Hur and Other Toga Plays and Films, 1883-1908. A Critical Anthology

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Kiadó Clarendon Press
Megjelenés dátuma 1994. február 17.

ISBN 9780198119906
Kötéstípus Keménykötés
Terjedelem336 oldal
Méret 223x144x25 mm
Súly 518 g
Nyelv angol
Illusztrációk halftones

Kategóriák

Filmművészet (valamint televíziózás és rádiózás) Angol nyelvű dráma

Rövid leírás:

Mayer doesn't want his book to be catagorized in the United States section of any history catalogues. This is the first collection of the most important playscripts and film scenarios of the `toga play', a genre of theatrical melodrama which flourished in the late nineteenth century and which re-emerged in silent cinema and later Hollywood `epics'. Generously illustrated, the volume ranges from the most popular of Victorian melodramas The Sign of the Cross (1895) to D.W. Griffith's earliest toga film, The Barbarian Ingomar (1908). David Mayer's detailed introductions show how the plays cast new light on Victorian attitudes to issues of class, gender, religion, and imperialism.

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Mayer doesn't want his book to be catagorized in the United States section of any history catalogues. This is the first collection of the most important playscripts and film scenarios of the `toga play' a genre of theatrical melodrama which flourished in the late nineteenth century and which re-emerged in silent cinema and later `epics'.

Set in the post-Republican Roman Empire, toga plays and films presented Roman and Jewish heroes, Christian virgins, seductive `adventuresses', insane Emperors, savage lions, and racing chariots. But, as David Mayer shows, the plays also ventured clandestinely into issues of class, gender, religion, immigration, and imperialism and hence shed new light on British and American social and cultural history. Among the restored scripts and scenarios included here - all of which are previously unpublished and generously illustrated - are those of Claudian (1883), the most popular of all Victorian melodramas The Sign of The Cross (1895), and the stage spectacular Ben Hur (1899) and its earliest cinematic version (1907). D.W. Griffith's first toga film The Barbarian Ingomar (1908) is represented by a lengthy selection of film stills.

At a time of growing interest in the relationship between Victorian popular theatre and early cinema, this ground-breaking publication brings to light a highly significant - but critically neglected - theatrical and cinematic genre.

`an illuminating study of the theatrical treatment of this theme in a number of "toga dramas", which shows how Quo Vadis? belonged very much to a genre'
Allan Massie, Times Literary Supplement