Spartakus: prawda czasu czy prawda ekranu?

• Authors: Piskorz Artur

Title variants

EN

Spartacus: historicizing the myth or mythologizing the history?

Abstracts

EN

This paper discusses the film adaptation of Howard Fast’s novel Spartacus. The text focuses on the various problems its makers had to face while filming the story of the uprising by an army of slaves under the leadership of the eponymous hero. The final version of the film appears to be the result of innumerable conflicts and compromises amongst the artists themselves as well as with the production company. The complexity of the whole situation is additionally emphasised by the ideological incompatibility between the message of the film and the official rhetoric of the US authorities. Effectively, Spartacus seems to fall victim to both the internal bickering of its makers and the external pressures of the authorities.

Keywords

EN

Spartacus; Stanley Kubrick; Kirk Douglas; Dalton Trumbo; Howard Fast; adaptation

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Media – Kultura – Komunikacja Społeczna
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 131-141

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Piskorz Artur

• Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny KEN w Krakowie

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