Pharaonic Egypt and the Ancient Near East in American cinema at the beginning of the Cold War (1945-1960)
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https://doi.org/10.22429/Euc2022.sep.05.12Keywords:
Antiquity, Egypt, Near East, American cinema, The fifties, Cold War, Cecil B. DeMille, Biblical moviesAbstract
When World War II concluded in 1945 the United States and Soviet Union began a period of tension and confrontation known as the Cold War, which lasted until the 1990s. American cinema took advantage of this historical period to convey ideological messages dictated by the political elite through films set in the Antiquity, such as Samson and Delilah, The Ten Commandments and Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. This article aims to analyse the cinematographic heritage in order to understand its function as a vehicle for the transmission of contemporary ideologies to the historical periods in which those movies were set.
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