{"product_id":"9781349848935","title":"Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalgrave Studies in the History of the Media\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eTheodore, Jonathan\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book investigates the ‘decline and fall’  of Rome as perceived and imagined in aspects of British and American culture  and thought from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries.  It explores the ways in which writers, filmmakers and the media have  conceptualized this process and the parallels they have drawn, deliberately or  unconsciously, to their contemporary world. Jonathan Theodore argues that the  decline and fall of Rome is no straightforward historical fact, but a ‘myth’  in terms coined by Claude Lévi-Strauss, meaning not a ‘falsehood’ but a  complex social and ideological construct. Instead, it represents the fears of  European and American thinkers as they confront the perceived instability and  pitfalls of the civilization to which they belonged. The material gathered in  this book illustrates the value of this idea as a spatiotemporal \u003ci\u003econcept\u003c\/i\u003e, rather than a \u003ci\u003ehistorical \u003c\/i\u003eevent – a narrative with its  own unique moral purpose. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2018-12-06\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781349848935\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/978-1-137-56997-4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 228\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44752457334924,"sku":"9781349848935","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781349848935.jpg?v=1776689193","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781349848935","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}