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(author?) 1916. The walls of Jericho? Or Babylon? Or Nineveh? Or Tyre? Photoplay 9.2: (January): ??-??. A photospread showing the construction of what would become the Egyptian set for the film Intolerance. NEW 6/08: (Author?). 1955. The Exodus Re-created: Turning Egypt into a Film Set. Life ??.?? (24 October): ??-??. Cover story. (author?) 2004. Books into Film: Death on the Nile. Firsts: the book collector's magazine (June). About the film by John Guillermin, after the Agatha Christie novel. Butler, Andrew M. 2001. Death and The Mummy. Vector: the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association 217 (May/June 2001): 14-15. NEW 6/08: Cadigan, Pat. 1999. Resurrecting the Mummy. ??: Trafalgar Square. Popular book about the creation of the film The Mummy (1999). Corlett, Dudley S. 1923. Art on the screen: or the film of Tutankhamen. Art and Archaeology 16.6 (December): 231-40. Comments on the techniques used to produce the elaborate historical settings for this film. Online version available. Lant, Antonia. 1992. The curse of the pharaohs, or how cinema contracted Egyptomania. October 59: 86-112. Lant, Antonia. 1996. L’antiquité égyptienne revue par le cinéma ou Pourquoi filmer les pharaons? In: L’Égyptomanie à l’épreuve de l’archéologie. Actes du colloque international organisé au musée du Louvre par le Service culturel du musée du Louvre. Ed. Jean-Marcel Humbert. Bruxelles, Éditions du Gram / Paris, Musée du Louvre = Conférences et colloques du Louvre: 585-605. Egypt as a symbol in early cinematic works. Noerdlinger, Henry S. 1956. Moses and Egypt: the documentation to the motion picture The Ten Commandments. Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press. Okano, Ari. 2002. The Westernization of Egypt: the power of innovation in Hollywood's The Mummy (1932, 1999 versions). Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Washington. Volume 1: Innovations: text, technologies and New Media in ancient worlds and contemporary cultures. Published on line. Orrison, Katherine. 1999. Written in Stone: making Cecil B. DeMille's Epic The Ten Commandments. Vestal Press. Pollès, Renan. 2001. La Momie de Kheops à Hollywood: généologie d'un mythe. Paris: Amateur. Schadla-Hall, Tim & Genny Morris. 2003. Ancient Egypt on the small screen: from fact to faction in the U.K. In: Consuming Ancient Egypt. Ed. Sally MacDonald & Michael Rice. Encounters with Ancient Egypt. London: University College London Press: 195-216. Serafy, Sam. 2003. Egypt in Hollywood: pharaohs of the Fifties. In: Consuming Ancient Egypt. Ed. Sally MacDonald & Michael Rice. Encounters with Ancient Egypt. London: University College London Press: 77-86. Three historical/biblical epics: The Egyptian (1954), The Land of the Pharaohs (1955), and The Ten Commandments (1956). Shohat, Ella. 1991. Gender and culture of empire: toward a feminist ethnography of the cinema. Quarterly Review of Film and Video ??:??-??. In part examines the Egyptian film Al Mummia (1969) in relationship with Hollywood's approach to Egypt and mummies. Reprinted in Visions of the East: orientalism in film, ed. Matthew Bernstein & Gaylyn Studlar (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997). Solomon, Jon. 1978. The Ancient World in the Cinema. Cranbury, New Jersey: A.S. Barnes & Co. Ucko, P. J., Quirke, S. 2006. 2004 advertisement for the TV version of Agatha Christie's 'Death on the Nile.' Public Archaeology 5.1:??-??. WEB SITES: Ancient Egypt in the Movies. <<http://docs.artun.ee/egypt/wwae/movie/main.html>> The Ancient Egypt Film Site. <<http://www.wepwawet.nl/films/>> The Ancient Egypt Site: movies. <<http://www.ancient-egypt.org/wwae/movies/>> Art on the Screen; or the film of Tutankhamen. << http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG00/rekas/tut/paper/tutmovie.htm>> Comments on the techniques used to produce the elaborate historical settings for this film. On-line version of Corlett 1923. |
