Franco Rossi's Adaptations of the Classics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23649004 |
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| Authors | Arthur J Pomeroy (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 253-270 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-13 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118741382.ch11 |
| OpenAlex | W2621956944 |
| ISBN | 9781118741382 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
From 1968 to 1985, the Italian director Franco Rossi produced three television adaptations of canonical epics of Greek, Roman, and Polish literature (Odisseai, Eneide, and Quo Vadis). Rossi's version of Sienkiewicz's novel Quo Vadis makes numerous changes from its source and also from earlier adaptations, most notably the 1951 version. Comparison between The Legend of Aeneas and Rossi's Eneide will highlight differing approaches to retelling Virgil's Aeneid for a modern audience. The three miniseries offer a substantial body of work for further exploration: at eighteen hours in total, they provide nearly as much material as the two seasons of BBC-HBO Rome. In many ways, the author's focus on prominent themes in Rossi's work follows a traditional philological approach. Script, cinematography, set design and editing show the choices of a group of creative artists who worked alongside the director and the actors to produce the final product. Classicists have much to learn from modern film studies.
Art · Art history · Focus (optics) · Legend · Literature · Philology · Political science · Sociology · Status quo · Classics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Italian Literature and Culture · Language and Culture · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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