David Huckvale
Auteur van Ancient Egypt in the Popular Imagination: Building a Fantasy in Film, Literature, Music and Art
Over de Auteur
David Huckvale has worked as a researcher, writer and presenter for BBC Radio and as a lecturer for various universities in England. He lives in rural Bedfordshire.
Fotografie: University of Cambridge
Werken van David Huckvale
Ancient Egypt in the Popular Imagination: Building a Fantasy in Film, Literature, Music and Art (2012) 20 exemplaren
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The first two chapters focus on Ancient Egypt in films. The overwhelming majority of Universal and Hammer mummy movies contain the same character names and relatively similar plots and titles making it really hard to distinguish one movie from another, especially when two or more titles may be mentioned in a single paragraph. Given the similarity to the plots, it's was almost redundant to go so far into detail with each movie's storyline.
The chapter on music assumed that the reader knew quite a lot about musical terminology, which probably cannot be widely assumed of students of popular culture and/or Ancient Egypt, the intended audience. On a positive note for this chapter, I wished I had an accompanying CD so that I could listen to the songs he was describing so that I could truly understand the distinctions and comparisons he was making.
Overall it was a decent book, but not one I would recommend to anyone with only a casual interest in Egypt and/or mummies.… (meer)