Aldrete, Gregory S.

A Historian Goes to the Movies (Complete set of 2 DVDs + Course Guidebook)

Chantilly, VA: The Great Courses / The Teaching Company, 2020.
DVD set of 2 discs in box + paperback guidebook.

Course #8635.  Professor Gregory Aldrete is the Frankenthal Professor of History and Humanistic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. In this series of 12 30-minute lectures, Dr. Aldrete examines famous films and miniseries set in the Roman world to assess their historical accuracy in terms of plots, sets, these costumes, and characterizations. The process of making such movies and their challenges to filmmakers is considered.

Disc 1

1. Quo Vadis Kick-Starts the Sword-and-Sandal Genre
2. Ben-Hur: The Greatest Chariot Race
3. Spartacus: Kubrick’s Controversial Epic
4. Cleopatra: Spectacle Gone Wild
5. The Fall of the Roman Empire and Ancient Epics
6. I, Claudius: The BBC Makes an Anti-Epic

Disc 2

1. Life of Brian: The Roman World’s a Funny Place
2. Gladiator: The Historical Epic Revived
3. Rome: HBO’s Gritty Take on Ancient History
4. Centurion and The Eagle: The Legions in Britain
5. Scipione l’africano and Fellini Satyricon
6. Bread and Circuses in Sci-Fi Films

Item #900843
ISBN: 9781629978277

2 discs in case, 12 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture, includes 122pp 5-1/4 x 7-3/8" guidebook in pictorial wrappers.

Previously owned set in excellent unused condition.

Price: $45.00