Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

A historian goes to the movies : Ancient Rome / Professor Gregory S. Aldrete.

Publisher, Date:

Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2020]

Description:

2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (122 pages : illustrations)

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

"The glory of ancient Rome meets the grandeur of modern Hollywood as you join a historian to examine the accuracy of classic sword-and-sandal films."--container.

Series:

The great courses. History. Ancient history

Great courses (DVD). Ancient history.

Subjects:

Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

Rome -- Civilization.

Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Lectures.

Educational films.

Instructional films.

Nonfiction films.

Other Author:

Aldrete, Gregory S., teacher.

Teaching Company, production company.

Other Title:

Ancient Rome

Notes:

"Course no. 8635."

Contains 12 lectures; each lecture is approximately 30 minutes.

Course guidebook includes bibliographical references.

Lecturer: Professor Gregory S. Aldrete, University of Wisconsin--Green Bay.

DVD.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Contents:

Quo Vadis kick-starts the sword-and-sandal genre -- Ben-Hur: the greatest chariot race -- Spartacus: Kubrick's controversial epic -- Cleopatra: spectacle gone wild -- The Fall of the Roman Empire and ancient epics -- I, Claudius: the BBC makes an anti-epic -- Life of Brian: the Roman world's a funny place -- Gladiator: the historical epic revived -- Rome: HBO's gritty take on ancient history -- Centurion and The Eagle: the legions in Britain -- Scipione l'africano and Fellini Satyricon -- Bread and circuses in sci-fi films.

ISBN:

9781629978277

1629978272

9781980091790

198009179X

Publisher Number:

GV0829

Other Number:

1137167917

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

830986

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

GREAT DVD 937.06 Historia