Videtur Per Lens. Hannibal Barca In the Documentary Cinema
Abstract
This article analyzes the audiovisual reception of the Carthaginian general, statesman and urban planner Hannibal Barca in the field of documentary cinema.
After the success of productions such as Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000), cinema based on the Roman world experienced a Renaissance that would extend to one of the characters most closely linked to it: Hannibal himself and Carthage, the city where he was born. With this, the documentary, which would remain as a product destined to the intimacy of the small screen of the domestic space, made use of his figure, making several productions on the life and actions of this general. This article, therefore, reviews some of these productions with the aim of unraveling the audiovisual codes with which Aníbal's journey is fixed in the retinas of viewers.
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