Lisa Maurice

Screening Divinity

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Produktbeschreibung

Engaging with recent scholarship on film, particularly film and theology as well as classical reception, Lisa Maurice considers the gods of Greek and Roman mythology alongside the biblical God of the Judeo-Christian tradition.

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Produktdetails

• Screening Antiquity
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 154mm x 234mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781474425742
• ISBN-10: 1474425747
• Artikelnr.: 59916190

Autorenporträt

Lisa Maurice is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She has published on ancient education, Plautine comedy and her research now primarily focuses on classical reception. She is the author of The Teacher in Ancient Rome (Lexington, 2013) and of many articles, and is the editor of three volumes in the Brill Metaforms series on the reception of the ancient world in popular culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations
Chapter One: Screening Divinity: Introduction
Chapter Two: Anthropomorphism
Chapter Three: Physiology and the Physical Appearance of the Divine (1):
The Patriarchal King Figure and the Devil
Chapter Four: Physiology and the Physical Appearance of the Divine (2):
Screening the Olympian Males and Jesus
Chapter Five: Gendering the Divine (1): Greek Goddesses on Screen
Chapter Six: Gendering the Divine (2): Holy Female Figures in the
Judeo-Christian Film
Chapter Seven: Human-Divine Interactions on Screen
Chapter Eight: Blurring the Boundaries: Apotheoses and Deicides
Postscript: Some Concluding Observations
Filmography; Bibliography; Index