Martin M. Winkler

Classical Literature on Screen

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines different affinities between major classical authors and great filmmakers alongside representations of ancient myth and history in popular cinema.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 731g
• ISBN-13: 9781316641873
• ISBN-10: 1316641872
• Artikelnr.: 58502481

Autorenporträt

Martin M. Winkler is University Professor and Professor of Classics at George Mason University, Virginia. His most recent books are Cinema and Classical Texts: Apollo's New Light (Cambridge, 2009), The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology (2009), and Arminius the Liberator: Myth and Ideology (2015). He has also published numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews, and edited several essay collections on classical antiquity and film.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Creative Affinities: Ancient Texts and Modern Images: 1. The
classical sense of cinema and the cinema's sense of antiquity; 2.
Pasolini's and Cocteau's Oedipus: no quarrel of the ancients and the
moderns in the cinema age; Part II. Elective Affinities: Tragedy and
Comedy: 3. Medea's infanticide: how to present the unimaginable; 4.
Striking beauty: Aristophanes' Lysistrat; Part III. Non-Elective
Affinities: Plot and Theme: 5. 'More striking': Aristotelian poetics in
Achilles Tatius, Heliodorus, and Alfred Hitchcock; 6. John Ford, America's
Virgil; Part IV. Counter-Affinities: Ideological and Narrative Distortions
of History: 7. Fascinating ur-fascism: the case of 300; 8. Good Nero; or,
the best intentions; Part V. Aesthetic Affinities: portraits of ladies: 9.
Regal beauties in Franco Rossi's films of the Odyssey and Aenid; 10. Helen
of Troy: is this the face that launched a thousand films?