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Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed, Die (1926) By the Cross (In Hoc Signo Vinces, Italy, 1913, see Adventures of Prince Achmed, The dir. Nino Oxilia), 122 Adam’s Rib (USA, 1922, dir. Cecil B. DeMille), 262, 284–5 Cabiria (Italy, 1914, dir. Giovanni Pastrone), 1, Adventures of Prince Achmed, The (Die 13, 20–1, 27, 109–11, 115, 123, 152, 229–46, Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed, Germany, 248–9, 255, 278, 310 1926, dir. Lotte Reiniger), 79 Caduta di Troia, La (1911) see Fall of Troy, The ‘Aesop’s Fables’ (USA, 1921–9, dir. Paul Cajus Julius Caesar (Italy, 1914, dir. Enrico Terry), 3 Guazzoni), 14, 118 Androcles and the Lion (Androclès, France, Carthage in Flames (Cartagine in Fiamme,Italy 1912, dir. L. Feuillade), 283 and France, 1959, dir. Carmine Gallone), 240 Anneau fatal, L’ (1912) see Fatal Ring, The Cheat, The (USA, 1915, dir. Cecil DeMille), 109 Antony and Cleopatra (Marcantonio e Christ Walking on Water (Le Christ marchant Cleopatra, Italy, 1913, dir. Enrico Guazzoni), sur les flots, France, 1899, dir. Georges 53, 116, 118, 120, 122 Méliès), 170 Apocalisse, L’ (Italy, 1947, dir. Giuseppe Maria Christus (Italy, 1916, dir. Giulio Antamoro), 117 Scotese), 258 Circe, the Enchantress (USA, 1924, dir. Attila (Italy, 1918, dir. F. Mari), 255 Robert Z. Leonard), 147 Augen der Mumie Ma, Die (1918) see Eyes of Cleopatra (USA, 1908, dir. J. Stuart Blackton), 53 the Mummy Ma Cleopatra (USA, 1917, dir. J. Gordon Edwards), 54, 71, 275, 328 Balthasar’s Feast (Le Festin de Balthazar, Cleopatsy (USA, 1918, dir. Hal Roach), 275 France, 1910, dir. Louis Feuillade), xiii Colossus of Rhodes, The (Il Colosso di Rodi, Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (1924) Italy, France, Spain, 1961, dir. Sergio see Hermannschlacht, Die Leone), 240 Behold the Man (USA, 1921, dir. Spencer Cupid and Psyche (Edison Manufacturing Co., Gordon Bennet), 172 USA, 1897), 1 Bending Her (USA, 1928, dir. Lupino Lane), 275 Ben-Hur (USA, 1907, dir. Sidney Olcott), 9, 20, Daniel (USA, 1914, dir. F. A. Thomson), 117 189–204, 280 Dante’s Inferno (L’inferno, Italy, 1911, dir. Ben-Hur (USA, 1925, dir. Fred Niblo), 1, 23, Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, 27, 275, 280, 313, 319, 321, 336 Giuseppe de Liguoro), 32–4, 115 Ben-Hur (USA, 1959, dir. William Wyler), 27, Daughter of the Gods (USA, 1916, dir. Herbert 100, 320, 327 Brenon), 139 Beyond the Rocks (USA, 1922, dir. Sam Dust of Egypt, The (USA, 1915, dir. George Woods), 56, 66–7, 72, 127 D. Baker), 62 Bible, The (La Bibbia, Aquila, 1913), 117 Birth of a Nation, The (USA, 1915, dir. Egyptian Mummy, The (USA, 1914, dir. D. W. Griffith), 109, 249, 279 Lee Beggs), 53 Blade am satans bog (1921) see Leaves from Egyptian Mystery, The (USA, 1909, dir. J. Searle Satan’s Book Dawley), 63 Burning Sands (USA, 1922, dir. George Emperor Nero and the Fire of Rome (Keizer Melford), 84 Nero en de Brand van Rome, 1913), 122 369

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Eyes of Mummy Ma, The (Die Augen der Intolerance (USA, 1916, D. W. Griffith), 1, 13, Mumie Ma, Germany, 1918, dir. Ernst 37, 43, 46–8, 50–2, 74–5, 79, 94–6, 98, 100–1, Lubitsch), 56, 65–7, 71 106–7, 152, 177, 180, 234, 241, 244, 262, 265, 275, 278–9, 284, 287, 295 Fall of Troy, The (La caduta di Troia, Italy, Island of Calypso, Ulysses and the Giant 1911, dir. Luigi Romano Borgnetto & Polyphemus (L’île de Calypso, Ulysse et le Giovanni Pastrone), 114–15, 122, 148, 151, géant Polyphème, France, 1905, dir. Georges 155, 159–60, 163, 229, 241 Méliès), 147, 155–7 Fatal Ring, The (L’anneau fatal, France, 1912, dir. Louis Feuillade), 63 Joseph in the Land of Egypt (USA, 1914, dir. Fazil (USA, 1928, dir. Howard Hawks), 71 W. Eugene Moore), 53 Frate Sole (Brother Son, Italy, 1918, dir. Mario Judgment of Paris, The (Le jugement de Corsi), 248–9, 255 Pâris, France, 1902, dir. Georges Hatot), Friends, Romans and Leo (USA, 1917, dir. Alan 112, 147 Crosland), 275 Judith and Holofernes (Giuditta e Oloferne, From the Manger to the Cross (USA, 1912, dir. Italy, 1908, dir. Mario Caserini), xiii, 207, Sidney Olcott), 53, 117 211–15, 217, 219–20, 228 Judith and Holofernes (Giuditta e Oloferne, Giuditta e Oloferne (1908) see Judith and Italy, 1920, dir. Aldo Molinari), 255 Holofernes Judith and Holofernes (Judith et Holopherne, Giuditta e Oloferne (1920) see Judith and France, 1910, dir. Louis Feuillade), 207, Holofernes 214–18, 220 Giuliano l’Apostata (1919) see Julian the Judith of Bethulia (USA, 1914, dir. D. W. Apostate Griffith), 95, 98–100, 106, 207, 217–28, 279 Jugement de Pâris, Le (1902) see Judgment of Haunted Curiosity Shop, The (UK, 1901, Paris, The dir. Walter R. Booth), 60 Julian the Apostate (Giuliano l’Apostata, Italy, Heimkehr des Odysseus, Die (1918) see Return 1919, dir. Ugo Falena), 21, 247–61 of Odysseus, The Julius Caesar (USA, 1909, dir. J. Stuart Heimkehr des Odysseus, Die (1922) see Return Blackton), 118 of Odysseus, The Julius Caesar (1914) see Cajus Julius Caesar Helen of Troy (Helena, Germany, 1924, dir. Manfred Noa), viii, 147–8, 151–2, 155, King Menelaus at the Movies (König Menelaus 158–60, 162–3 im Kino, Austria, 1913, dir. Hans Otto Héliogabale (Heliogabalus, France, 1910, dir. Löwenstein), 3, 147 André Calmettes), 113 King of Kings (USA, 1927, dir. Cecil Her Husband’s Trademark (USA, 1922, dir. B. DeMille), 170 Sam Wood), 127 Hermannschlacht, Die (Battle of the Teutoburg Last Days of Pompeii, The (Gli ultimi giorni di Forest, Germany, 1924, dir. Leo König), Pompeii, Ambrosio, Italy, 1913, dir. Mario 22, 297–312 Caserini and Eleuterio Rodolfi), 116, 119, Hero of the Arena, The (Der Held Der Arena, 122, 124, 283, 326 Germany, 1928), 162 Last Days of Pompeii, The (Gli ultimi giorni di His Prehistoric Past (USA, 1914, dir. Charlie Pompeii, Italy, 1908, dir. Luigi Maggi and Chaplin), 275 Arturo Ambrosio), 115, 236 Horitz Passion Play, The (Klaw & Erlanger, Last Days of Pompeii, The (Gli ultimi giorni di USA, 1897), 1, 6, 12, 169 Pompeii, Italy, 1926, dir. Carmine Gallone and Amleto Palermi), 254 Image Maker, The (USA, 1917, dir. W. Eugene Last Days of Pompeii, The (Ione o Gli ultimi Moore), 62 giorni di Pompeii, Pasquali, Italy, 1913, dir. In Hoc Signo Vinces (1913) see By the Cross Giovanni Enrico Vidali), 122, 237 In the Hands of Imposters (Den hvide Slavehandel, Last Days of Pompeii, The (UK, 1900, dir. Denmark, 1911, dir. August Blom), 114 Robert Paul), 111–12

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Leaves from Satan’s Book (Blade am satans bog, Nero (Nerone, Italy, 1909, dir. Luigi Maggi), Denmark, 1921, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer), 115, 323 20, 171, 180–8 Nero (USA, 1922, dir. J. Gordon Edwards), 323 Legend of Midas, The (La légende de Midas, Nero Trying out Poisons on His Slaves (Néron France, 1910, dir. Louis Feuillade), xiii essayant des poisons sur des esclaves, France, Life and Passion of Jesus Christ, The (La vie et 1896, Georges Hatot), 1, 111 passion du Christ, France, 1905, dir. Noah’s Ark (USA, 1928, dir. Michael Curtiz), Ferdinand Zecca & Lucien Nonguet), xiv, 20, 262 31, 171, 178, 187–8 Life of Christ, The (La vie et passion du Christ, Odissea, L’ (1911) see Odyssey, The Gaumont, France, 1906, dir. Alice Guy), 30, Odyssey of a Countryman in Paris (Odyssée 35 d’un paysan à Paris, France, 1905, dir. Life of Moses, The (USA, 1909, dir. Charles Charles-Lucien Lépine), 151 Kent and J. Stuart Blackton), 5, 123, 264 Odyssey of a Scholar, The (L’Odyssée d’un Life of Moses, The (La vie de Moïse¸ Pathé, savant, Pathé, France, 1908), 151 France, 1905), 264, 268 Odyssey of a Spaceship, The (L’Odyssée de la Luke, the Gladiator (USA, 1916, dir. Hal voiture astral, France, 1905, dir. Georges Roach), 275 Méliès), 151 Odyssey of a Super (Odissea di una comparsa, Male and Female (USA, 1919, dir. Cecil B. Italy, 1909, dir. Romolo Bacchini), 151 DeMille), 126, 262–3, 268, 284 Odyssey of the North, An (USA, 1914, dir. Man’s Genesis (USA, 1912, dir. D. W. Griffith), Hobart Bosworth), 147, 159 284 Odyssey, The (L’Odissea, Italy, 1911, dir. Manslaughter (USA, 1922, dir. Cecil Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe di Liguoro, B. DeMille), 262, 267, 284 Adolfo Padovan), xiv, 8, 147–9, 151, 153–5, Market Scene in Cairo (Edison, USA, 159–60, 162–3 1903), 53 Oil and Water (USA, 1912, dir. D. W. Griffith), Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled (USA, 1918, dir. 96, 102, 105 R. W. Phillips), 53 Messiah, The (La vie et la passion de nôtre Passion Play of Oberammergau, The (USA, Seigneur Jésus Christ, France, 1913–14), 1898, dir. Richard Hollaman), 170 117 Passion Play, The (USA, 1898, dir. Sigmund Miracle, The (Das Mirakel, Austria/Germany, Lubin), 170 1912, dir. Cherry Kearton and Max Passion, The (La Passion, France, 1897, dir. Reinhardt), 117 Léar [Albert Kirchner]), 169 Miracle, The (Das Mirakel, Germany, 1912, dir. Passion, The (La Passion, Gaumont, France, Mime Misu), 118 1898), 169 Modern Sphinx, A (USA, 1916, dir. Charles Polynesian Odyssey, A (USA, 1921, dir. Burton Bennett), 62 Holmes), 147, 159 Monster, The (Le monstre, France, 1903, dir. Princess in the Vase, The (USA, 1908, dir. Georges Méliès), 60 Wallace McCutcheon), 61 Monstre, Le (1903) see Monster, The Private Life of Helen of Troy, The (USA, 1927, Moon of Israel, The (1924) see Sklavenkönigin, dir. Alexander Korda), 14, 23, 147, 151, Die 158–9, 162, 330–46 Moses Saved from the Water (Moïse sauvé des Pyramides (vue générale), Les (Lumière, France, eaux, France, 1911, dir. Henri Andréani), 1897, dir. Alexandre Promio), 53 xiii, xiv Mummy, The (USA, 1932, dir. Karl Freund), 64 Queen of Nineveh, The (La regina di Ninive, Mystery of Osiris, The (Il mistero di Osiris, Italy, 1911, dir. Luigi Maggi), 7, 241 Italy, 1919, dir. Aldo Molinari), 255 Queen of Sheba (USA, 1921, dir. J. Gordon Edwards), 263–4 Naidra, the Dream Woman (USA, 1914, dir. Quo Vadis (USA, 1951, dir. Mervyn LeRoy), W. Eugene Moore), 63 100, 237, 243, 321, 326

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Quo Vadis? (Italy, 1913, dir. Enrico Guazzoni), Sumurun (Germany, 1920, dir. Ernst 1, 27, 115–16, 118, 120–1, 123–4, 236, 278, Lubitsch), 83 280, 293, 325 Target of Dreams, The (Knickerbocker Star Regina di Ninive, La (1911) see Queen of Features, USA, 1916), 151 Nineveh, The Tarquin The Superb (Tarquin le superbe, Regina di Sparta, La (The Queen of Sparta, France, 1908, dir. Albert Capellani), 113 USA, 1931), 162 Ten Commandments, The (USA, 1923, Cecil Retour d’Ulysse, Le (1909) see Return of B. DeMille), 1, 21, 177, 262–74, 284–5, 287, Ulysses, The 294 Return of Odysseus, The (Die Heimkehr des Ten Commandments, The (USA, 1956, Cecil Odysseus, Germany, 1918, dir. Rudolf B. DeMille), 177, 262 Biebrach), 147 The Mummy (Thanhouser, USA, 1911), 61 Return of Odysseus, The (Die Heimkehr des The Mysterious Stranger (Éclipse, France, Odysseus, Germany, 1922, dir. Max Obal), 147 1911), 169 Return of Ulysses, The (Le retour d’Ulysse, France, The Passion Play: Flight into Egypt (Lubin, 1909, André Calamettes), 113, 147, 158 USA, 1903), 53 Rigadin and the Pretty Manicurist (Rigadin et Théodora (France, 1912, dir. Henry Pouctal), la jolie manicure, France, 1915, dir. Georges 123 Monca), 151 Theodora (Teodora imperatrice di Bisanzio, Roman de la momie, Le (1911) see Romance of Italy, 1909, dir. Ernesto Maria Pasquali), 123 a Mummy, The Theodora (Teodora, Italy, 1921, dir. Roman Orgy, The (L’orgie romain, France, L. Carlucci), 123 1911, dir. Louis Feuillade), 7 Thief of Baghdad, The (USA, 1924, dir. Raoul Roman Scandals (USA, 1933, dir. Frank Walsh), 79 Tuttle), 276 Three Ages (USA, 1923, dir. Buster Keaton Romance of a Mummy, The (Le roman de la and Eddie Cline), 13, 22, 275–96 momie, France, 1911, dir. Albert Capellani), 61 Romans and Rascals (USA, 1918, dir. Larry Undying Flame, The (USA, 1917, dir. Maurice Semon), 275 Tourneur), 62

Salomé (USA, 1918, dir. J. Gordon Edwards), Vengeance of Licinius, The (La vengeance 263 de Licinius, France, 1912, dir. Georges Salomé (USA, 1923, dir. Charles Bryant), 96, Denola), 113 107–8 Venus (Venere, Italy, 1919, dir. Aldo Molinari), Samson and Delilah (Samson et Dalila, France, 255 1902, dir. Ferdinand Zecca), 263 Venus of the South Seas (USA, 1924, dir. James Samson and Delilah (Samson und Delila, Austria, R. Sullivan), 139 1922, dir. Alexander Korda), 262–3, 333 Vestal, The (La vestale, France, 1908, dir. Sappho (Saffo, Italy, 1918, dir. Aldo Molinari), Albert Capellani), 113 255 Vie de Moïse, La (1905) see Life of Moses, The She’s a Sheik (USA, 1927, dir. Clarence Vie et la passion de nôtre Seigneur Jésus Christ, Badger), 72 La (1913–14) see Messiah, The Sheik, The (USA, 1921, dir. George Melford), 84 Vie et passion du Christ, La (1906) see Life of Silent Mystery, The (USA, 1918, dir. Francis Christ, The Ford), 63 Vie et passion du Christ, La (1905) see Life and Sklavenkönigin, Die (The Moon of Israel, Passion of Jesus Christ, The Austria, 1924, dir. Michael Curtiz), 57, 71 Sodom and Gomorrah (Sodom und Gomorrha, Wandering Jew, The (Le juif errant, France, Germany, 1922, dir. Michael Curtiz), 262 1904, dir. Georges Méliès), 170 Soldiers of the Cross (Australia, 1900, dir. Weib des Pharao, Das (The Loves of Pharaoh, Herbert Henry Booth), 6 Germany, 1922, dir. Ernst Lubitsch), 54

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Abadie, Alfred Camille, 53 Bambrick, Gertrude, 99, 101, 105–7 Academy Awards, 334 Bara, Theda, 54, 107, 275, 328 Achilles, 49, 151–2, 164, 339, 343 Bardèche, Maurice, 109 Acropolis, the, 42 Barnum, P. T., 95–7 actualities see newsreels Barrett, Wilson, 92 Aesop, 3 Bazin, André, 68, 290 Africa, 102, 235–7, 243, 325 Belshazzar, 44, 97, 234 Ajax, 339–40, 343 Benjamin, Walter, 46, 48–50, 52 Akhnaten, 83 Berger, Germaine, 172 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 99, 206, 218–20, 227 Bergson, Henri, 289 Alexander the Great, 3, 125 Bernini Film, 247 Alfano, Franco, 248 Bible, 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 28–9, 35, 44, 53, 76, 92, Allan, Maud, 101, 104–6 100, 107, 133, 169–88, 205, 262–3 Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence, 5, 109, 111, Exodus, 21, 265, 271–4, 285 255, 280 Gospel of John, 175, 177, 179, 185–6, 320, 326 Angelopoulos, Theo, 5, 145–7 Gospel of Luke, 174, 177, 179–80, 182, anti-Semitism, 183, 186–7, 299, 314–17, 323 185–6, 223, 323 Aphrodite, 134–6, 152, 320, 337 see also Venus Gospel of Mark, 177, 179, 185–6, 208, 264 Apollo, 9, 134 Gospel of Matthew, 174, 177, 179, 182, Apollo Belvedere, The, 134, 137 185–6, 209, 264, 322 Arabian Nights, 79, 83 Old Testament, 96–7, 99, 123, 207, 213, 234 archaeology, 12, 17, 37–45, 58, 68, 233, 238, Sermon on the Mount, the, 175, 320 241, 257 Stations of the Cross, 175 Archimedes, 110, 233, 239 Borgnetto, Luigi Romano, 148, 230 architecture, 8, 41, 45–8, 81, 91–108, 234, 238, Brasillach, Robert, 109 246, 325 Brenon, Herbert, 121 Aristotle, 4, 243 British Empire Exhibition (1924), 89–90 Arminius, 22, 297–312 British National Film Archive, 28 Assmann, Jan, 58 Joye Collection, 29–30, 34–6 Assyria, 7, 13, 21, 38, 99, 105–6, 206, 209–10, Bruno, Giordano, 229 212, 218, 220, 222–3, 227, 241 Bryant, Charles, 107 Athena, 135–6, 250, 334 Buchanan, Thompson, 206, 227 Athens, 42, 239, 241 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 111–12, 116, 119–20, audience, 32, 40–51, 75, 104, 112–25, 138–44, 232, 279 151–60, 180, 215, 229–46, 253, 264–71, Burden, Jane, 256 278–83, 302–6, 313, 323–4, 330, 345–6 burlesque, 19, 147, 151, 275, 335, 346 Augustan History, The,40 Augustus, 297, 300, 303 Calypso, 147, 155–6 Aurelian, 40 Cambellotti, Duilio, 253–6, 258 Australia, 4, 6, 139 canonisation, 159, 165 Capellani, Alberto, 61, 113 Babylon, 37–8, 43–8, 51–2, 74, 91–100, 107–8, Caravaggio, 207, 214 161, 181, 234, 240–3, 244, 278, 284, 295 Carl, Renée, 207, 216 373

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Carnarvon, Lord, 82, 90 dance, 5, 18, 21, 70, 97–108, 268, 314 Carter, Howard, 82, 89–90 Salomé, 93, 102, 104, 107 Carthage, 3, 13, 109–10, 231–44 Dante, 32–3, 35, 115 Caserini, Maria, 207, 214 de Medici, Catherine, 74 Caserini, Mario, 211, 237 Debussy, Claude, 250 cataloguing, 17, 24, 31–2, 34 Deleuze, Giles, 48, 65, 151, 287 Chaplin, Charlie, 275 Delilah, 208, 263 chariot races, 148, 193–4, 336 DeMille, Cecil B., 1, 21, 109, 126, 177, 262, Christ, 20, 30–1, 74, 169–88, 278, 295, 319–22 284–7, 294–5 Christianity, 117, 119, 123, 188, 233, 253–60, deserts, 70–3, 80 281, 295, 315–16, 320, 328–9 desire, 12, 17, 61–2, 68, 127, 133, 136–7, 152, Cicero, 302 206, 218–25, 267, 270, 298, 328, 330, cinemas, 8, 16, 18, 28, 84–5, 93, 113, 115–17, 345–6 see also eroticism, sexuality 120–2, 155 Desmet Collection, 29 cinematography, 155, 215, 229, 290 Desmet, Jean, 29, 122 see also close up, editing, lighting, location Dickens, Charles, 35, 112 shooting, long shot Dido, 233 Cines, vii, 30, 116–18, 207, 211, 214, 228, distribution, film, 1–4, 16–24, 27–36, 113–24, 236, 295 149–65, 173, 200–2, 214, 230, 279, 301, 334 Circe, 220 Domitian, 91 Cirta, 110, 231–2, 235, 238, 243–5 Doré, Gustave, 35, 177, 180 city, the see urbanism drawing and etching, 39, 48, 179, 203, 230, 238 classicism, 8, 12–13, 15, 126, 131–2, 138, dreams, 17, 61–2, 69, 97, 275 142–3 Dreyer, Carl Theodore, 171, 173, 176, 180–8 Cleopatra, 54, 60, 71, 78, 83, 220, 237, 258 Du Camp, Maxime, 56, 69–70 close up, 55, 68, 71, 86, 182–6, 188, 267–8, Duffy, Mary, 142 277–8, 324 Dukas, Paul, 250 colonialism, 15, 54, 71, 159, 234–5 Duncan, Isadora, 101–2 colour, 10–11, 17–18, 21, 28, 34–6, 83, 172, 188, 215, 264, 321 East, the see orientalism comedy, 23, 31, 35, 64, 275, 281, 285, 287, ecphrasis, 49 330–1, 335, 342 see also parody, satire Edison, Thomas, 1, 9, 53, 164 alternative history, 294–6 editing, film, 17, 21, 34, 48, 55, 60, 86, 129, 196, anachronism as, 285–7 237, 265, 278, 290, 310 historical comedy, 284–6 education, 7, 10–11, 33–4, 56, 84, 112, 154–5, self-reflexivity, 295–6 278 slapstick, 275, 283, 287–90, 295–6, 335 Egypt, 1–3, 8, 12, 17–18, 21, 53–90, 92, 161, Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur, 60 174, 244–6, 265, 275, 326–8 Constant, Benjamin, 5 see also deserts, mummies, orientalism, consumerism, 9, 141, 340, 343, 345–6 pyramids, Sphinx Coolidge, Calvin, 342 ‘Book of the Dead, the’, 60, 77–8 copyright, 9, 20, 189–91, 195, 202–3 Egyptology, 18, 70, 76, 82–3, 88–90 Corda, Maria, 159, 333–4, 336, 344–5 past-present interaction, 63 Corelli, Marie, 180–2 spiritualism, and, 57 costume, 30, 104, 142, 153, 162, 184, 192, 215, electricity, 58–60, 63 237, 246, 253–4, 291, 319, 327–9, 334, Elgin Marbles, 137 336–7, 344–5 elite culture, 32, 137, 153, 215, 218 Cruze, James, 263 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 75 Cyrus (Persian king), 74, 94, 97 Endell, August, 50 epic, 3, 19, 145–65 D’Annunzio, Gabriele, 109–10, 115, 230, 248 ancient Greek, 147, 160–2 Da Vinci, Leonardo, 37, 183, 321 film, 148–57, 237, 246, 263, 279, 300 Dali, Salvador, 142 Hollywood, 4, 21, 23, 109, 150

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Erlanger, Abraham L., 169, 190–1, 201, 203, Graziosi, Guido, 254 280, 313–15 Greece, 3, 8, 18, 28, 40–3, 81, 91, 101, 117, eroticism, 17–22, 60–6, 84, 92–108, 113, 123, 125–31, 147–50, 233, 241, 254, 326, 134, 150–1, 205, 215, 267 see also desire, 331–41, 346 homosexuality, sexuality Grenander, Alfred, 43 Erskine, John, 158–9, 330–3, 335, 342–3, 345 Griffith, D. W, 1, 13, 37–51, 63, 74–9, 91–102, The Private Life of Helen of Troy (novel), 331–3 109, 150–2, 177–81, 207, 220, 225, 234, Europe, 17–19, 30, 37, 127–30, 138, 155, 244, 249, 275–87, 294–5 169–71, 231–44, 250–8, 279, 295, 317 Grimm Brothers, 35, 53 exoticism see orientalism Guazzoni, Enrico, 1, 116, 236 Guy, Alice, 35 Fables, William, 275 Fairbanks, Douglas, 79 Haeckel, Ernst, 57 Falena, Ugo, 247–9, 254–5, 260 Haggard, H. Rider, 61 Faure, Elie, 81–2 Hannibal, 110, 243, 342 femininity, 7, 54, 127, 132, 134, 157, 205, 211, Harrison, Tony, 5 217, 227, 237, 291, 293–4, 344–5 Hatot, George, 1, 111, 147 emancipation of women, 54, 91, 212, 227 Hawthorne, N., 202 female body, the, 54, 112, 139, 142 Hector, 67, 151, 164–5 feminism, 91, 330 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm, 56, 58, 152 gender roles, 209–11, 213, 345 Helen, 14, 23, 151–2, 158, 255–6, 330–46 women in comedy, 293, 332 Heliogabalus, 7, 113 Feuillade, Louis, 7, 63, 207, 214–15 Herculaneum, 238 First World War, 14, 44, 111, 135, 141–2, 153, Herodotus, 97, 234 299, 308, 317 Hesiod, 134 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 345 hieroglyphics, 8, 18, 59, 61, 74–90, 161 Flaubert, Gustave, 57–8, 69–70, 231, 239 historical narratives, 74, 294 Fokine, Michel, 105 historiography, 15–16, 233 Ford, Henry, 313, 315–17 history, 6, 10–22, 27, 37, 49, 54–8, 146–57, Foucault, Michael, 276 229–46, 275–312, 341 Fox Studios, 263 historical accuracy, 39, 108, 233–4, 257, 279, 305 fragmentation, 141–2, 153, 165, 181, 222, 340 Hoffman, Gertrude, 101, 104–5 Franco-Prussian War, 127 Hollaman, Richard, 170 Freud, Sigmund, 70, 152, 158 Holmes, Sherlock, 229 Holofernes see Judith Galatea, 131–2 Homer, 19, 49, 145–65 Gaumont, 30–1, 35, 114, 169, 207, 214–17 film reception, 146–7 Gauntier, Gene, 191–6, 200, 203 Iliad, 49, 158, 164–5, 330 Gautier, Théophile, 60 Odyssey, 9, 19, 113, 145, 147, 158, 162 Gaye, Howard, 181 homoeroticism, 55, 267 see also desire, gender see femininity, masculinity eroticism, sexuality George V, King, 119 horror, 157 Germany, 45, 147, 162, 297–312, 316 Horus, 88 Gérôme, Jean-Léon, 109, 131 Hull, E. M., 84 ghosts see supernatural, the humour see comedy Giacometti, Paolo, 99 Gilbert, James, 58–9 imperialism, 13, 45, 86, 91, 153, 232, 342–3 Gish, Lillian, 74, 95, 106, 132 India, 13, 21, 234, 243, 243, 246 Glyn, Elinor, 127 intertitles, 21–3, 30, 112, 152, 160, 181, 184–5, Godward, John William, 256 187, 196–7, 230, 266, 306–7, 324, 335–6 Gorky, Maxim, 11, 55 Isis, 60 Gounod, Charles, 250 Italy, 28, 119, 136, 147, 232–6, 239–41, 243, Grand Tour, The, 136, 143 248, 254, 259–60

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Jackson, G. Hunt, 132 Man Ray, 142 Jael, 207, 209 Mancinelli, Luigi, 248–50, 255, 258 jazz age, 291, 345–6 Marinetti, Filipo, 51 John, disciple of Jesus (biblical figure), 177, Marion, Frank J., 191, 193 179, 183–4 Mark Antony, 54 John the Baptist, 107 marketing, 32–5, 114–20, 126–40, 149–50, 159, Johnson, Adrian, 54 188–97, 215–18, 230–8, 278–80, 303, 320, Johnson, Samuel, 91 334–7 Judaism, 313–19, 323, 327 Marlowe, Christopher, 78, 158, 182 ‘The Jewish Question’, 316–17 Marx, Groucho, 315 Judas (biblical figure), 176–9, 182–7 Mary, mother of Jesus, 174–5, 209, 213, Judith, 20, 99, 104, 205–28 321–2, 324 Julian (emperor), 21, 253–4, 256, 258–61 Mary Magdalene (biblical figure), 169, 175 Julian, Rupert, 240 Mascagni, Pietro, 248–9 Julius Caesar, 54, 71, 229, 252, 258 Mascalchi, Ignazio, 256 masculinity, 7, 22, 291, 293–4 Kalem Company, 189–204 mass culture, 6–14, 32, 137, 153–5, 278 Karnak, 64 Melford, George, 84 Keaton, Buster, 13, 22, 275–96 Méliès, Georges, 60, 79, 147, 155, 157, 170 Kellermann, Annette, 139 melodrama, 63, 154, 250–1, 253, 295, 302 Kephren, 72 Mencken, H. L., 333 Kiralfy, Imre, 95–7, 108, 191, 193 Menelaus, 151–2, 331–2, 336–7 Klaw, Marc, 1, 169, 190, 201, 203, 280, 313, 315 Mercié, Antonin, 127 Kleine, George, 112, 191–2, 201 Mesguich, Felix, 64, 68–70 Klimt, Gustav, 206 Mesopotamia, 1, 3, 13, 44, 49, 91, 93, 241 Koldewey, Robert, 38, 43–5 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 313, 318 König, Leo, 299–300, 302, 306, 309–11 Mills, Samuel Alfred, 206 Korda, Alexander, 23, 263, 330, 333–6, 345 Milton, John, 182 Kracauer, Siegfried, 51, 298–9 modernism, 15, 142 Moloch, 110, 234, 237, 239–40 Lang, Fritz, 240 morality, 19, 22, 45, 51, 84, 117, 119, 155, 205, Lapper, Alison, 142 222, 227, 262–72, 278–85 Lazarus (biblical figure), 175 Moses, 21, 29, 123, 264–6, 271–3 legitimisation, 5–6, 38, 42, 50, 125 Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC), Leighton, Frederic, 109 201–3 Lemaître, Jules, 158 mummies, 3, 11, 17, 28, 53, 60–2, 66 Leone, Sergio, 240 murals, 41–2, 101 Lewis, C. S., 123 Murnau, F. W., 181 lighting, 35, 69, 119, 153, 234, 319 Museums, 6, 42, 53, 204 Lindsay, Vachel, 57, 59, 75–83, 90, 95, 102–4 British Museum, 92, 137 Lloyd, Harold, 275 Louvre, 131, 134, 137, 233, 257 location shooting, 21, 229, 299 Neues Museum, Berlin, 41–2 Long, Samuel, 191–2 music, 6, 10, 18, 21, 71, 92, 134, 144, 155, long shot, 21, 47, 71, 186, 214, 265, 268, 290, 247–51, 258, 314, 331 311, 329 accompaniment, 93, 116, 249, 287 love, 17, 54–5, 62–8, 84, 131–6, 148–52, 244, music hall see vaudeville 252–3, 295, 301, 318, 340–2 myth, 3, 19, 72, 81, 108, 125, 131, 133–8, 143, Lubin, Sigmund, 170 147, 156–7, 217, 232–3, 298, 312, 334 Lumière Brothers, 9, 11, 53, 68, 145, 164 Napoleon, 63–4, 86, 249 Maciste, 233, 237 narrative, film, 31, 65, 101–8, 110, 151–62, magic, 11, 60, 79, 88, 251 169, 205–6, 232, 264–71, 276–8, make-up, 55, 102 284–6, 294

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nationalism, 13–14, 28, 34, 91, 152–3, 155, Paul, Robert, 111–12 278, 318 peplum, 3–4, 150, 247–8, 250, 254, 258 British, 85 Persians, 40, 97 German, 297–312 Peter, disciple of Jesus (biblical figure), 176, Italian, 233–5 179, 186 Navarro, Ramon, 134, 280, 318 Petrie, Flinders, 82, 87 Nazimova, Alla, 96, 101, 107–8 photography, 6, 15, 17, 20, 35–6, 48–9, 68–70, Nazism, 298–9, 303, 307–9, 312 128–31, 138, 143, 179, 202, 215 Nebuchadnezzar, 97 Pickford, Mary, 127 Negri, Pola, 66, 310 Piranesi, Giovanni, 38–9 neoplatonism, 253 Plato, 80, 331 Nero, 1, 91, 111, 115, 122, 193, 237, 243, 254, Pliny, 243 258, 323 Polyphemus, 155–7 New Zealand, 119 Pompeii, 3, 111–12, 119–20, 122, 193, 232, 238, newsreels, 32, 46, 72 279–80, 283 Niblo, Fred, 313, 319 Poppaea, 237 Nickelodeons, 93, 102 popular culture see mass culture Nietzsche, Friedrich, 151, 158, 276, 287 Pre-Raphaelites, 256 Nineveh, 3, 7, 241 Priam, 151–2, 241 Northall, John, 136 production, film, 3–4, 16, 18, 28, 30, 33, 114, Novello, Ivor, 134 161–3, 191, 194–5, 279 nudity, 34–5, 54, 104–5, 107, 112, 123, 269 costs, 229, 263, 265, 309, 318, 334 Numidia, 231, 233–5 in Britain, 28, 120 in France, 3, 28, 169 O’Neil, Nance, 99, 219 in Italy, 3, 28 O’Neill, Eugene, 110, 122 in the USA, 3, 28, 169 Odysseus, 145–7, 150–1, 155, 157, 164 Prometheus, 233 see also Ulysses propaganda, 233, 235, 309, 315–17 Olcott, Sidney, 191, 193, 195–6 psychoanalysis, 63, 70, 156–7 see also Freud, opera, 5, 104, 193, 206, 238, 248–9, 310 Sigmund opulence, 7, 238, 280, 330, 346 publicity, 5, 9, 17, 102, 122, 127, 149–50, 153, orality, 19, 160–2 280, 334 orientalism, 6–15, 21, 32, 39–40, 68–73, Punic War see Carthage 94–101, 158, 231–46, 314, 328 pyramids, 53, 57, 65, 68, 70–1 Osiris, 60, 66 Ovid, Metamorphoses, 131 racism, 102, 322 see also anti-Semitism Oxilia, Nino, 122, 249 reincarnation, 58, 62, 69 Reinhardt, Max, 83, 117 painting, 5–6, 35, 37–51, 76, 109, 125–36, Rettig, John, 95–6 177–87, 213–14, 256, 279 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 125, 137 Palestine, 316–18 Riegl, Alois, 81 Palmyra, 39–41 Ristori, Adelaide, 99 Paramount, 84, 126–7 romance see love Paris (mythological figure), 112, 135, 137, romanticism, 75 147–52, 332–45 Rome, 3, 13, 28, 31, 38–43, 91, 110–19, 232–43, parody, 3, 22, 147, 151, 275–83, 291, 294 279–84, 297–303, 309, 322–3, 326–9, 342–3 Parry, Milman, 161–2 as oppressor, 325–6 Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 5 toga-plays, 91 Pastrone, Giovanni, 1, 13, 152, 229–46, 249, 310 Rose, Frank Oakes, 194 Pathé, 30–1, 112–13, 120, 172–3, 177, 182, 187, Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 256 264, 295 Royal Albert Hall, 116, 118 Pathé-Gaumont Archives, 29 ruins, 8, 27, 136, 141 Paul, R. W., 60 Russia, 3, 105, 121

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Salgari, Emilio, 232 Swanson, Gloria, 126, 137–8 Salome, 164, 169, 208 see also dance Swedenborg, Emmanuel, 75 Samson, 208, 232, 283 Sweet, Blanche, 99, 101–2, 106, 220–1, 225 Sappho, 3 sword-and-sandal film see peplum Satan (biblical figure), 169–71, 181–3, 185–7 tableaux vivants, 174, 183, 187, 279 satire, 290–4, 335 Tacitus, 298, 307 Schliemann, Heinrich, 40 Talbot, William Henry Fox, 70 Schmalz, Herbert, 39–40, 42 temporality, 17, 37–73, 79, 83, 144, 162, 165, science fiction, 156–7, 240 277, 284–5, 290 Scipio Africanus, 231–2 Thalberg, Irving, 319 scopophilia, 14, 157, 216, 269 theatre, 5, 14, 17, 48, 84, 91, 254, 269 Scorsese, Martin, 231 ancient, 7 Scriabin, Alexander, 6 compared with cinema, 85–6 sculpture, 5–6, 35, 41–2, 76–82, 123, 137–42, modern, 48, 51, 76, 91 244, 257, 279 Thor, 303 Second World War, 45, 155 Tissot, James, 5, 35 Semon, Larry, 275 Titian, 213 Serov, Alexander, 206 tragedy, history as, 152, 276 set design, 37–40, 48, 83, 234, 238, 244, 279, travelogues, 27, 29, 32 334 Troy, 3, 14, 23, 40–1, 114, 146–7, 150, 152, sexuality, 142, 157, 206, 210, 212, 215, 229, 340 219–20, 225, 227, 269–72, 285, 291, 317, Tutankhamun, 18, 56, 78, 82, 88, 90 330 see also desire, eroticism, feminism, homoeroticism, masculinity Ulysses, 147, 155, 157–9, 339–40, 343 Shakespeare, William, 12, 28, 78, 118, 254 see also Odysseus Sherwood, Robert E., 341–3 United Kingdom, 114–16, 120–1 Sicily, 229, 231–2, 235, 237–9 United States of America, 75, 77, 87, 287, 291, Sienkiewicz, Henryk, 122 295, 341–3 Quo Vadis (novel), 111, 117, 233, 279 and race, 75, 102 Simmel, Georg, 50–1 Supreme Court of, 189, 192–3, 203–4 sound, 1, 3, 10–11, 21, 71, 93, 100, 143, 145–6, urbanism, 38, 43, 45, 50–1 161, 169, 262, 276 special effects, 20, 110, 148, 155, 170, 175, 188, Valentino, Rudolph, 67, 84, 143 237, 290 vamps, 20, 107, 156, 205, 275, 286, 328 spectacle, 6–21, 76, 90, 94–108, 110–17, 150–7, Varus, Quintilius, 297, 301–3 191, 220, 262–72, 314, 344 vaudeville, 6, 17, 32, 35, 101, 288, 290, 296 pyrodramas, 112 Venus, 19, 125–43 see also Aphrodite scale of, 115, 149, 264, 280 Venus de Milo, 128–31, 134–6 spectatorship, 8, 14, 145, 157, 160, 165, Verdi, Giuseppe, Aida, 66, 248 281, 325 Victoria, Queen, 48 gaze, 157, 269 violence, 7, 54, 206, 271, 293, 299 Sphinx, 53, 69, 265 Virgil, 32 spiritualism, 57, 60 Vitagraph, 5, 118 St. Denis, Ruth, 101, 104, 106–7 voyeurism see desire, scopophilia, sexuality, stars, 54, 125–44, 216 spectatorship classical gods and, 134, 139 sculpture and, 128–35 Wagner, Richard, 13, 152, 249, 310 star system, 137, 144 Walker, Aida Overton, 102 Steiner, Rudolph, 57 Wallace, Lew, 189, 191, 193, 195, 295, 313, 315, Stinnes, Hugo, 299 323, 326 supernatural, the, 11–12, 32 Ben-Hur (novel), 9, 111, 189, 279, 313, surrealism, 142 316–17

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Warncke, Paul, 304–5, 308–9 Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 134 Weigall, Arthur, 76, 82–90 Wood, Robert, 40 Whitefield, George, 206 Worringer, Wilhelm, 80–1, 83 Whitman, Walt, 74–6 Wilde, Oscar, 107 Zecca, Ferdinand, 173 Wilkinson, John Gardner, 70 Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, 39–42