The Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

22.08.2016

Englisch

9781137569967

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media

Nein

Jonathan Theodore

228

Gebundene Ausgabe

Ancient Rome, Cultural history, Civilisation, Media, Lévi-Strauss

NHC - Antike NHTB - Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte NHD - Europäische Geschichte NHC - Antike

Introduction.- Representation and Myth; Hermeneutics and Historical Consciousness; Antiquity, Past and Present; Methodology.- 1: Historiography, Myth and Visual Culture.- The Fall of the Western Roman Empire and its Modern Historiography; The Decline and Fall as an Atypical Model of Myth; Myth as Interdisciplinary Study; Theories of Myth; Historiography, Myth and Literature; Historical “Consciousness” and Narrative; Classics and The Vernacular; Film and a Consciousness of Antiquity; Truth and Accuracy in Historical Cinema.- 2: The Fall of Rome and Ideas of Decline.- The Tradition of Decline; Gibbon’s Decline and Fall; Gibbon and Concepts of Decadence.- 3: Roman Decline and the West in the Modern Age.- Rome and Reflections on Twentieth Century Society; Roman Narratives and the Cold War; Mann, Hollywood and Historical “Truth”; The Fall and Contemporary Discourses of Empire.- 4: Decadence, Imperialism and Decline from the Late Twentieth Century.- Mass Culture and its Critics; Gladiator, Rome And America in 2000 Ad; 9/11 and Critics of Empire; Cinema and the Decline and Fall in the New Millennium; Rome, Civilization and The Modern Age.- Conclusion.- Bibliography

210 mm

14.8 cm