Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Safran, Meredith E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of fourteen essays explores how the dominant media of our time - film and television - have engaged with the golden age as formulated in the Western classical tradition.Drawing on ancient Greek and Roman literature and culture, from Hesiod to Suetonius, these essays assess the far-reaching influence of the golden age concept on screen texts ranging from prestige projects like Gladiator and HBO's Rome, to cult classics Xanadu and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, made by auteurs including Jules Dassin and the Coen Brothers. The book also looks at fantasy (Game of Thrones), science fiction (Serenity), horror (The Walking Dead), war/combat (the 300 franchise; Centurion), and the American Western.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474440868
• Artikelnr.: 55430811

Autorenporträt

Meredith E. Safran is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut (USA). She has written multiple papers for journals and edited collections. She is the co-editor of Roman Comedy: Performance, Pedagogy, Research and of Classical Myth on Screen (both 2015). Her work has also appeared in Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World (2013) and Blackwell's Companion to the Ancient Greek and Roman World on Screen (2017). She earned her PhD in Classics from Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' preface; Editor's Acknowledgments; Contributors; List of
Illustrations; Introduction: Searching for Gold in an Age of Iron, Meredith
E. Safran; Part I: The Glory That Was Greece; 1. Re-(en)gendering Heroism:
Reflective Nostalgia for Peplum's Golden Age of Heroes in Hercules: The
Legendary Journeys 2.14 (1996), Vincent Tomasso; 2. Kissed by the Muse of
Roller-disco: Utopia versus the Golden Ages of America, Hollywood, and
Classical Myth in Xanadu (1980), Meredith E. Safran; 3. Gilding American
History through Song Culture in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Ryan
Platte; 4. A Leonidas for the Golden Age of Superhero Films: The
Thermopylae Tradition in 300 (2006), Eric Ross; 5. The Dueling Greek Golden
Ages of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), Seán Easton; 6. Confronting the
Ancient Greek Golden Age in Jules Dassin's Phaedra (1962), Emma Scioli; 7.
Pericles, Cincinnatus, and Zombies: Classicizing Nostalgia in The Walking
Dead (2010-), Laura Gawlinski; Part II: The Grandeur That Was Rome; 8. "All
That Glitters...": Problematizing Golden-Age Narratives in Vergil's Aeneid
and the Western Film Genre, Kirsten Day; 9. The Golden Age and Imperial
Dominance in the Aeneid and Serenity (2005), Jennifer A. Rea; 10. Turning
Gold into Lead: Sexual Pathology and the De-mythologizing of Augustus in
HBO's Rome (2005-2007), Thomas J. West III; 11. The Dux Femina Ends
Westeros' Golden Age: Cersei Lannister as Agrippina the Younger in HBO's
Game of Thrones (2011 - ), Meredith D. Prince; 12. The Golden Aspects of
Roman Imperialism in Film, 1914-2015, Anise K. Strong; 13. Broken Eagles:
The Iron Age of Imperial Roman Warfare in Post-9/11 Film, Alex McAuley; 14.
Dreaming of Rome with Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000), Matthew Taylor;
Filmography; Bibliography; Index