Contemporary readers would have an "idea" of that way of life, but largely through television and film representations, which are full of stereotypes.
(I blame this on those Geico commercials and endless film representations of Neanderthal men with the shaggy yet well-kempt beards).
The organization researched films released by major studios including 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Sony Columbia, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros. for the report, which it said was meant as "a road map toward increasing fair, accurate and inclusive LGBT film representations".
It would be interesting to know whether it was for similar reasons that other filmed representations of Cleopatra are not on view, but are only alluded to in the exhibition catalogue.
Directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, it's a sequel to her film Miss Representation, about the false depictions of women in the media.
This isn't to say that the film's representation of National Socialism, its repellent invocation of the Holocaust crematoriums in the final blowout and calculated use of the Jews-as-rat metaphor are not vulgar in the extreme.
In her film Miss Representation, about the ways in which women are portrayed in the media, Jennifer Siebel Newsom highlighted how female politicians are often reported as "complaining" about a policy, whereas men are simply "stating" or "saying" their views.
For me, the interesting thing was not to evaluate the film's representation of history but to watch how filmmaking brought into focus the artifice of the historian's storytelling.
There was a moment or two of laughter — the Christmas-party scene, in which several of them appeared as extras, prompted some excited whispering — but a far greater sense of sober recognition, at the film's representation of the bureaucratic logic that results in the separation of families.
