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Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23680761 |
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| Authors | Monica S Cyrino (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 293-305 |
| 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.ch13 |
| OpenAlex | W2623862899 |
| ISBN | 9781118741382 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Thirty years after network television innovated the miniseries format and broadcast the ancient Roman world by offering highbrow historical drama with a bare-bones minimalist look in Herbert Wise's I, Claudius, ancient Rome burst back on to the small screen with a decidedly different critical aesthetic and a completely new commercial strategy. Two series that premiered on premium cable television channels, HBO Rome (2005-2007) and STARZ Spartacus (2010-2013), sought to capitalize on the recent renaissance of high-budget antiquity-themed narratives on the big screen by combining the spectacular visual opulence of classic mid-century epic cinema with the graphic sex and gritty violence of modern R-rated action films. In a post-Gladiator (2000) entertainment environment, both HBO Rome and STARZ Spartacus were extremely successful in engaging with earlier onscreen receptions of the ancient Roman world while each series broke its own kind of new ground in portraying the familiar historical events and characters of the Late Roman Republic.
Art · Art history · Comedy · Drama · Entertainment · EPIC · Literature · Narrative · The Renaissance · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · History
| Highly cited | No |
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