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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : électronique
Auteur(s) : Waddell, Philip
Titre(s) : Tacitean Visual Narrative [Texte électronique] / Philipp Waddell
Publication : London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (257 p.)
Collection : Bloomsbury classical studies monographs
Lien à la collection : Bloomsbury classical studies monographs (Online)
Note(s) : Description based upon print version of record
"Combining the studies of modern film, traditional narratology, and Roman art, this
interdisciplinary work explores the complex and highly visual techniques of Tacitus'
Annales . The volume opens with a discussion of current research in narratology, as
applied to Roman historians. Narratology is a helpful and insightful tool, but is
often inadequate to deal with specifically visual aspects of ancient narrative. In
order to illuminate Tacitus' techniques, and to make them speak to modern readers,
this book focuses on drawing and illustrating parallels between Tacitus' historiographical
methods and modern film effects. Building on these premises, Waddell examines a wide
array of Tacitus' visual narrative devices. Tacitean examples are discussed in light
of their narrative effect and purpose in the Annales , as well as the ways in which
they are similar to contemporary Roman art and modern film techniques, including focalization,
alignment, use of the ambiguous gaze, temporal suggestion and quick-cutting. Through
this approach the modern scholar gains a deeper understanding of the many ways in
which Tacitus' Annales act upon the reader, and how his narrative technique helps
to shape, guide, and deeply layer his history."
La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de IX-240 p.
Sujet(s) : Tacite (0055?-0120?) -- Technique
Narration
Cinéma et littérature
Indice(s) Dewey :
808.066 791 (23e éd.) = Techniques d'écriture - Spectacles
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781350097018. - ISBN 1350097012. - ISBN 1350097020. - ISBN 9781350097025. -
ISBN 9781350097001 (erroné) (hbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46844882v
Notice n° :
FRBNF46844882
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Cover page ; Halftitle page ; Series page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Dedication
; Contents ; Figures ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction1 ; Classics and Film ;
Roman Visuality ; The Romans' Visual World ; Feldherr's Visual Historiography ;
Visual Historiography ; Narratology ; Toward an Understanding of Visual Narrative
; Visual Methodology ; Film Paradigm: The Classical Hollywood Film ; How Classical
Hollywood Cinema Applies to Tacitus ; Part One Lens and Voice ; 1 Focalizing Empire
; Focalization and Visual Control ; The Third Man ; Pompeian Ariadne ; Tiberius
Asinius Gallus ; Agrippina at the Bridge ; Choosing a Successor ; Sejanus ; Plotting
against Drusus ; Destroying the House of Germanicus ; Convincing Tiberius ; Agrippina
the Younger ; The Murder of Agrippina: Th e Ideal Spectator and the Shot-Reverse-Shot
; Strangers on a Train ; Nero's Plan ; What the Rowers Saw ; Desertion, Murder,
and Aft ermath ; Final Thoughts ; 2 Vox Caesaris, Vox Taciti: Imperial Alignment
; Excursus, Voice, and Alignment ; Alignment ; Pompeian Narcissus ; Murder, My
Sweet ; Tiberius: The (Mis)Rule of Law ; Tiberius and Justice ; Lex Maiestatis
Rule of Law ; State of the Empire ; Tiberian Rome ; Claudius: The Professor- in-Chief
; The Oblivious Scholar ; Altering the Alphabet ; Expanding the Pomerium ; Final
Thoughts ; 3 The Directed Gaze and the Construction of Meaning ; Imperial Close-ups
and Touch of Evil ; Tiberius ; The Trial of Calpurnius Piso ; The Persecution of
Nero Caesar ; Nero ; The Maltese Falcon and the Threatening Gaze ; The Nobiles
; Nero ; Agrippina ; Octavia ; Damnatio Memoriae, Rebecca, and Watching the Invisible
; Invisible Cursus ; Inverted Thanksgivings ; Invisible Ancestors ; Final Thoughts
Part Two Transition and Connection ; 4 Shadows over Rome: Temporal Suggestion ;
Double Indemnity and Roman Narrative Sarcophagi ; Foreshadowing Tiberius ; What's
in a Name ; Nero: Tiberius by Another Name ; Like Mother Like Daughter: The Two
Agrippinas24 ; Prophecy and Prediction ; Gaius Caligula: A Monster Foretold ; Claudius:
The Forgotten Emperor ; Impending Doom ; Germanicus ; Drusus the Younger ; Sejanus
; Backshadowing in the Annales ; Just Like Pa ; Teutoburg Forest64 ; Caecina's
Nightmare ; Behold Varus Again! ; Livia and Agrippina ; First of the New Principate
Final Thoughts ; 5 Eloquent Collisions: The Quick-Cut1 ; The Narrative Quick-Cut
and Strangers on a Train ; Tiberius and Germanicus ; Empty Arches ; Collision Quick-Cut
and The Godfather ; Triumph and Trial ; Marriage and Flames ; Attractive Quick-Cut
and Lawrence of Arabia ; A Dead Tree Grows in Rome ; Final Thoughts ; Notes ;
Works Cited ; Index Locorum ; General Index
