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Tacitean Visual Narrative
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction1 -- Classics and Film -- Roman Visuality -- The Romans' Visual World -- Feldherr's Visual Historiography -- Visual Historiography -- Narratolo...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
, 2020
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6320872 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction1 -- Classics and Film -- Roman Visuality -- The Romans' Visual World -- Feldherr's Visual Historiography -- Visual Historiography -- Narratology -- Toward an Understanding of Visual Narrative -- Visual Methodology -- Film Paradigm: The Classical Hollywood Film -- How Classical Hollywood Cinema Applies to Tacitus -- Part One Lens and Voice -- 1 Focalizing Empire -- Focalization and Visual Control -- The Third Man -- Pompeian Ariadne -- Tiberius -- Asinius Gallus -- Agrippina at the Bridge -- Choosing a Successor -- Sejanus -- Plotting against Drusus -- Destroying the House of Germanicus -- Convincing Tiberius -- Agrippina the Younger -- The Murder of Agrippina: Th e Ideal Spectator and the Shot-Reverse-Shot -- Strangers on a Train -- Nero's Plan -- What the Rowers Saw -- Desertion, Murder, and Aft ermath -- Final Thoughts -- 2 Vox Caesaris, Vox Taciti: Imperial Alignment -- Excursus, Voice, and Alignment -- Alignment -- Pompeian Narcissus -- Murder, My Sweet -- Tiberius: The (Mis)Rule of Law -- Tiberius and Justice -- Lex Maiestatis -- Rule of Law -- State of the Empire -- Tiberian Rome -- Claudius: The Professor- in-Chief -- The Oblivious Scholar -- Altering the Alphabet -- Expanding the Pomerium -- Final Thoughts -- 3 The Directed Gaze and the Construction of Meaning -- Imperial Close-ups and Touch of Evil -- Tiberius -- The Trial of Calpurnius Piso -- The Persecution of Nero Caesar -- Nero -- The Maltese Falcon and the Threatening Gaze -- The Nobiles -- Nero -- Agrippina -- Octavia -- Damnatio Memoriae, Rebecca, and Watching the Invisible -- Invisible Cursus -- Inverted Thanksgivings -- Invisible Ancestors -- Final Thoughts -- Part Two Transition and Connection. 4 Shadows over Rome: Temporal Suggestion -- Double Indemnity and Roman Narrative Sarcophagi -- Foreshadowing Tiberius -- What's in a Name -- Nero: Tiberius by Another Name -- Like Mother Like Daughter: The Two Agrippinas24 -- Prophecy and Prediction -- Gaius Caligula: A Monster Foretold -- Claudius: The Forgotten Emperor -- Impending Doom -- Germanicus -- Drusus the Younger -- Sejanus -- Backshadowing in the Annales -- Just Like Pa -- Teutoburg Forest64 -- Caecina's Nightmare -- Behold Varus Again! -- Livia and Agrippina -- First of the New Principate -- Final Thoughts -- 5 Eloquent Collisions: The Quick-Cut1 -- The Narrative Quick-Cut and Strangers on a Train -- Tiberius and Germanicus -- Empty Arches -- Collision Quick-Cut and The Godfather -- Triumph and Trial -- Marriage and Flames -- Attractive Quick-Cut and Lawrence of Arabia -- A Dead Tree Grows in Rome -- Final Thoughts -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index Locorum -- General Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (257 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781350097018 |
