Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema

Name: Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema
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ISBN: 9780195130041

ISBN-10: 0195130049

ISBN-13: 9780195130041

Edition: 2001

Authors: Martin M. Winkler

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Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema is a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in Ancient Greece and Rome and to films that reflect archetypal features of classical literature. The book illustrates the continuing presence of antiquity in the most varied and influential medium of modern popular culture. The diversity of content and theoretical stances found in Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema will make this volume required reading for scholars and students interested in the presence of Greece and Rome in modern popular culture.

Book details

List price: $90.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/21/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 8.90" wide x 5.79" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Contributors


Classical Myth ... Culture in the Cinema


Introduction



The Katabasis Theme in Modern Cinema



Verbal Odysseus: Narrative Strategy in the Odyssey and in the Usual Suspects



Michael Cacoyannis and Irene Papas on Greek Tragedy



Eye of the Camera, Eye of the Victim: Iphigenia by Euripides and Cacoyannis



Iphigenia: a Visual Essay



Tragic Features in John Ford's the Searchers



An American Tragedy: Chinatown



Tricksters and Typists: 9 to 5 as Aristophanic Comedy



Ancient Poetics and Eisenstein's Films



Film Sense in the Aeneid



Peter Greenaway's the Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover: a Cockney Procne



The Social Ambience of Petronius' Satyricon and Fellini Satyricon



Star Wars and the Roman Empire



Teaching Classical Myth and Confronting Contemporary Myths



The Sounds of Cinematic Antiquity


Index