264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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Consuming Ancient Egypt examines the influence of Ancient Egypt on the everyday lives of contemporary people, of all ages, throughout the world. It looks at the Egypt tourist sees, Egypt in film and Egypt as the inspiration for opera. It asks why so many books are published each year on Egyptological subjects at all levels, from the austerely academic to the riotous celebrations of Egypt as a land... Read more
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION - TEA WITH A MUMMY: THE CONSUMER'S VIEW OF EGYPT'S IMMEMORIAL APPEAL, Michael Rice, MacDonald Sally; Chapter 2 'MUMMYMANIA' FOR THE MASSES - IS EGYPTOLOGY CURSED BY THE MUMMY'S CURSE?, Carter Lupton; Chapter 3 HOW TO STAGE AIDA, Jean-Marcel Humbert; Chapter 4 VICENT LLEÓ'S OPERTTA: LA CORTE DE FARAÓN, Covadonga Sevilla Cueva; Chapter 5 EGYPT IN HOLLYWOOD: PHARAOHS OF THE FIFTIES, Sam Serafy; Chapter 6 LOST IN TIME AND SPACE: ANCLENT EGYPT IN MUSEUMS, Sally MacDonald; Chapter 7 'ACQUISITIONS AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM, 1998', Julian Walker; Chapter 8 SELLING EGYPT: ENCOUNTERS AT KHAN EL-KHALILI, Fekri A. Hassan; Chapter 9 EGYPT'S PAST REGENERATED BY ITS OWN PEOPLE, Fayza Haikal; Chapter 10 WHAT DO TOURISTS LEARN OF EGYPT?, Okasha El Daly; Chapter 11 'WONDERFUL THINGS': PUBLISHING EGYPT IN WORLD AND IMAGE, Andrew Wheatcroft; Chapter 12 HIJACKED IMAGES: ANCIENT EGYPT IN FRENCH COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING, Bernadette Schnitzler; Chapter 13 ALTERNATIVE EGYPTS, Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince; Chapter 14 ANCIENT EGYPT ON THE SMALL SCREEN - FROM FACT TO FACTION IN THE UK, Tim Schadla-Hall, Genny Morris;
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Sally MacDonald, Michael Rice
