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    How Pharaohs Became Media Stars

    Ancient Egypt and Popular Culture

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    Contributor(s)
    Fernandez Pichel, Abraham I. (editor)
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    The appearance of new media and its enormous diffusion in the last decades of the 20th century and up to the present has greatly increased and diversified the reception of Egyptian themes and motifs and Egyptian influence in various cultural spheres. So-called ‘popular’ or ‘pop’ culture (cinema, genre fiction, TV-series, comics, graffiti, computer and video games, rock and heavy music, radio serials, among others) often makes use of narratives and motifs drawn from the observation and study of ancient Egypt, updated and reinterpreted in various ways, and which is now the subject of study by scholars of Egyptology. The present monograph seeks to provide new evidence of this interdisciplinarity between Egyptology and popular culture. It explores the conscious reinterpretation of the past in the work of contemporary authors, who shape an image of the Egyptian reality that in each case is determined by their own circumstances and contexts.
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    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86091
    Keywords
    Social Science; Media Studies; History; Ancient; Egypt
    ISBN
    9781803276267, 9781803276274
    Publisher
    Archaeopress Publishing
    Publisher website
    https://www.archaeopress.com/
    Publication date and place
    2024
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched
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    Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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