Abstract
Este breve estudo pretende analisar a forma como a antiga Mesopotâmia foi recebida no cinema norte-americano e europeu do séc. XX, tendo em conta as suas múltiplas influências artísticas e literárias. Através de curtas e longas metragens, sobretudo das décadas de 10, 20, 50 e 60 da passada centúria, analisar-se-ão algumas das personagens e episódios mais importantes que foram retratados nas telas cinematográficas referentes à Assíria e Babilónia. O estudo terá em conta o facto de o cinema não ser alheio a outras formas de expressão visual ou literária, recolhendo destas vários elementos. De entre as suas influências, destacam-se os quadros de Pieter Bruegel, Gustave Doré ou John Martin, ou as composições literárias de Voltaire, Pietro Metastasio ou Lord Byron. Por outro lado, o cinema também não foi alheio ao seu próprio contexto sociopolítico, estando os filmes produzidos intimamente dependentes dos seus contornos sociais e ideológicos. São aspectos como estes que propomos analisar.
This brief study intends to analyse the way Mesopotamia was received in 20thcentury North-American and European cinema, having in mind its multiple artistic and literary influences. Through short and feature films produced essentially in the decades of 1910. 1920, 1950, and 1960, important characters and episodes associated to ancient Babylonia and Assyria will be carefully analysed. This study will have in mind the fact that cinema is not strange to other forms of visual and literary expression, collecting from these different elements. Amongst such influences are paintings by Pieter Bruegel, Gustave Doré or John Martin, and literary compositions by Voltaire, Pietro Metastasio or Lord Byron. On the other side, cinema was also dependent from its own socio-political context, being the movies produced intimately connected with its own social and ideological contours. This are the aspects we propose to analyse here.KeywordsMovies; Babylon; Assyria; Sardanapalus; Babel Tower.1Original title in Portuguese: A Recepção Da Antiga Mesopotâmia No Cinema. Uma viagem pelo universo da escrita em movimento e seus antepassados artístico-literários. Translated with the permission of the author. Translated by Jessica Regina Brustolim –[email protected], NovaUniversity Lisbon.
This brief study intends to analyse the way Mesopotamia was received in 20thcentury North-American and European cinema, having in mind its multiple artistic and literary influences. Through short and feature films produced essentially in the decades of 1910. 1920, 1950, and 1960, important characters and episodes associated to ancient Babylonia and Assyria will be carefully analysed. This study will have in mind the fact that cinema is not strange to other forms of visual and literary expression, collecting from these different elements. Amongst such influences are paintings by Pieter Bruegel, Gustave Doré or John Martin, and literary compositions by Voltaire, Pietro Metastasio or Lord Byron. On the other side, cinema was also dependent from its own socio-political context, being the movies produced intimately connected with its own social and ideological contours. This are the aspects we propose to analyse here.KeywordsMovies; Babylon; Assyria; Sardanapalus; Babel Tower.1Original title in Portuguese: A Recepção Da Antiga Mesopotâmia No Cinema. Uma viagem pelo universo da escrita em movimento e seus antepassados artístico-literários. Translated with the permission of the author. Translated by Jessica Regina Brustolim –[email protected], NovaUniversity Lisbon.
Translated title of the contribution | The reception of ancient mesopotamia in the cinema: a journey through the universe of writing in motion and its artistic-literary ancest |
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Original language | Portuguese |
Pages (from-to) | 59-90 |
Number of pages | 32 |
Journal | Heródoto: Revista Do Grupo De Estudos E Pesquisas Sobre a Antiguidade Clássica E Suas Conexões Afro-asiáticas |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- Filmes
- Babilônia
- Assíria
- Sardanápalo
- Torre de Babel
- Movies
- Babylon
- Assyria
- Sardanapalus
- Babel Tower