Totò, Cleopatra and the missed comparison

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-4797/1265

Keywords:

totò, cleopatra, mankiewicz, cerchio, parodia, peplum

Abstract

Produced immediately after Mankiewicz’s Cleopatra, Fernando Cerchio’s Totò e Cleopatra is not simply a parody of its more famous colossal prototype, but it is also a parody of an entire genre (the so called peplum) conceived to exploit the many misfortunes of its model.

Author Biography

  • Giorgio Bejor, University of Milan
    Giorgio Bejor, Professor in Archaeology and History of Art of Greece at the University of Milan, is Scientific Director of LANX, the electronic journal of the Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici of the University of Milan and former Director of the same School. He is above all interested in sculpture, architecture and town planning. He have directed many archaeological excavations in Italy, Greece, Turkey and Syria. He is now the Director of the excavations of the University of Milan at Nora (Cagliari, Sardinia, IT), Gortyn (Crete, Greece) and Kyme (Turkey).

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Published

2011-07-27

Issue

No. 7 (2010)

Section

SCENES OF ANCIENT ROME. Evolution of a Project. Edited by R. De Berti, E. Gagetti, F. Slavazzi. First Part

How to Cite

Totò, Cleopatra and the missed comparison. (2011). LANX. Journal of the Scuola Di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici - Università Degli Studi Di Milano, 7, pp. 282-287. https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-4797/1265