Receptions of the ancient Near East in popular culture and beyond /
"This book is an enthusiastic celebration of the ways in which popular culture has consumed aspects of the ancient Near East to construct new realities. The editors have brought together an impressive line-up of scholars-archaeologists, philologists, historians, and art historians-to reflect on...
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Atlanta, GA :
Lockwood Press,
2020
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Paul Collins
- Preliminary considerations / Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Lorenzo Verderame
- Visual arts
- Mesopotamia in Miró. Miró in Mesopotamia / Pedro Azara and Marc Marín
- Case studies in the popular reception of the Tell Asmar sculpture hoard / Jean M. Evans
- Images of ruins as metaphorical places of transformation : the case of Persepolis / Silvana Di Paolo
- Performing arts
- Artaserse : an ancient oriental ruler on modern opera stages? / Kerstin Dross-Krüpe
- When imitation became reality : the historical pantomime Sardanapal (1908) at the Royal Opera of Berlin / Valeska Hartmann
- Ye go to thy Abzu : how Norwegian black metal used Mesopotamian references, where it took them from, and how it usually got them wrong / Daniele Federico Rosa
- Film and television
- "Babylon's last bacchanal" : Mesopotamia and the Near East in epic biblical cinema / Kevin McGeough
- He who saw the stars : retelling Gilgamesh in Star Trek: The Next Generation / Eva Miller
- Evil from an ancient past and the archaeology of the beyond : an analysis of the movies The Exorcist (1973) and The Evil Dead (1981) / Lorenzo Verderame
- Novels and comics
- The ancient Near East in Czech comics and popular culture : the case of Jáchym and the Printer's Devil / Jana Mynářová and Pavel Kořínek
- Gilgamesh, the (super)hero / Luigi Turri
- Mystery literature and assyriology / Francesco Pomponio
- Ancient aliens, modern cosmologies : Zecharia Sitchin and the transformation of Mesopotamian myth / Ryan Winters
- Archaeologist in the middle
- The (in)visibility of archaeology / Davide Nadali
- Imagining the tower of Babel in the twenty-first century : is a new interpretation of the ziggurat of Babylon possible? / Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós
- Athletic disciplines in the ancient Near East : representation and reconstruction / Silvia Festuccia
- Afterword. Memory and memories : from the ancient Near East to the modern west / Frances Pinnock