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Nisbet, Gideon. Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture (Greece and Rome Live Series). Exeter, UK: Bristol Phoenix, 2006. xiv + 170 pp.
This spring the film 300, by Frank Miller of Sin City (2005) fame, will hit the movie theatres. An epic retelling of the last stand of the Spartans at Thermopylae, originally presented in a graphic novel of the same name, this film attacks its viewers with powerful contrasts, as we see stark backgrounds inhabited by red-cloaked Spartans, whose laconic demeanor has been transformed into a type of raw, passionate violence which drives the retelling of one of the most celebrated moments in Greek history. Gideon Nisbet, in his book Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture, invites us to ask who these Greeks are and where is this Greece? He addresses a perennial problem with all films about Greece, namely why does Greece emerge as such a problematic topic for cinema in specific and popular culture in general?
Nisbet's book is a contribution to Bristol Phoenix's Greece and Rome Live series. The stated goal of this series is to introduce to a...
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