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Author | : M. Cyrino |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2015-04-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1137486031 |
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An examination of how screen texts embrace, refute, and reinvent the cultural heritage of antiquity, this volume looks at specific story-patterns and archetypes from Greco-Roman culture. The contributors offer a variety of perspectives, highlighting key cultural relay points at which a myth is received and reformulated for a particular audience.
Author | : M. Cyrino |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2015-04-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1137486031 |
Download Classical Myth on Screen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An examination of how screen texts embrace, refute, and reinvent the cultural heritage of antiquity, this volume looks at specific story-patterns and archetypes from Greco-Roman culture. The contributors offer a variety of perspectives, highlighting key cultural relay points at which a myth is received and reformulated for a particular audience.
Author | : Martin M. Winkler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2001-06-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0198029780 |
Download Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 diversity of content and theoretical stances found in this volume will make it required reading for scholars and students interested in interdisciplinary approaches to text and image, and for anyone interested in the presence of Greece and Rome in modern popular culture.
Author | : Paula James |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2011-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1441146776 |
Download Ovid's Myth of Pygmalion on Screen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Why has the myth of Pygmalion and his ivory statue proved so inspirational for writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and directors and creators of films and television series? The 'authorised' version of the story appears in the epic poem of transformations, Metamorphoses, by the first-century CE Latin poet Ovid; in which the bard Orpheus narrates the legend of the sculptor king of Cyprus whose beautiful carved woman was brought to life by the goddess Venus. Focusing on screen storylines with a Pygmalion subtext, from silent cinema to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Lars and the Real Girl, this book looks at why and how the made-over or manufactured woman has survived through the centuries and what we can learn about this problematic model of 'perfection' from the perspective of the past and the present. Given the myriad representations of Ovid's myth, can we really make a modern text a tool of interpretation for an ancient poem? This book answers with a resounding 'yes' and explains why it is so important to give antiquity back its future.
Author | : Martin M. Winkler Professor of Classics George Mason University |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2001-05-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0195351568 |
Download Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 diversity of content and theoretical stances found in this volume will make it required reading for scholars and students interested in interdisciplinary approaches to text and image.
Author | : Stephen M. Trzaskoma |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2016-09-06 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1624664997 |
Download Anthology of Classical Myth Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This new edition of Anthology of Classical Myth offers selections from key Near Eastern texts—the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Epic of Creation (Enuma Elish), and Atrahasis; the Hittite Song of Emergence; and the flood story from the book of Genesis—thereby enabling students to explore the many similarities between ancient Greek and Mesopotamian mythology and enhancing its reputation as the best and most complete collection of its kind.
Author | : Mark William Padilla |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2018-12-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1498563511 |
Download Classical Myth in Alfred Hitchcock's Wrong Man and Grace Kelly Films Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book treats six beloved films of Hitchcock: The 39 Steps, Saboteur, and North by Northwest, plus Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and To Catch a Thief. Padilla reviews their production histories with an eye to classical influences, and then analyzes their links with Greek art, poetry, and philosophy.
Author | : Patricia B. Salzman-Mitchell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Myth in motion pictures |
ISBN | : 9780190204167 |
Download Classical Myth and Film in the New Millennium Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offering unique and in-depth discussions of films that have been released since 2000, Classical Myth and Film in the New Millennium uses various modern approaches--ranging from myth criticism to psychology and gender studies--to analyze popular movies that make use of themes and stories from Greek and Roman mythology, including Troy, The Hunger Games, Pan's Labyrinth, and Clash of the Titans. FEATURES * Provides a critical analysis of thirteen movies, exploring the themes, characters, and plots that arise from Greek and Roman mythology and also from other Western and contemporary traditions * Covers films that today's students may already be familiar with and enjoy, resulting in a relevant and interesting text * Addresses themes central to the new millennium: the environment, the perils of materialism and excessive consumerism, gender oppression and equality, broken families, and the constant threat of violence * Organizes films into five thematic parts--Homeric Echoes, The Reluctant Hero, Women in the Margins, Coming of Age in the New Millennium, and New Versions of Pygmalion--that provide an interpretive framework for examining archetypes * A substantial general Introduction provides a foundation for studying myth and film, and each part includes an introduction and discussion questions
Author | : Mark William Padilla |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2016-09-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 149852916X |
Download Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock presents an original study of Alfred Hitchcock by considering how his classics-informed London upbringing marks some of his films. The Catholic and Irish-English Hitchcock (1899-1980) was born to a mercantile family and attended a Jesuit college preparatory, whose curriculum featured Latin and classical humanities. An important expression of Edwardian culture at-large was an appreciation for classical ideas, texts, images, and myth. Mark Padilla traces the ways that Hitchcock’s films convey mythical themes, patterns, and symbols, though they do not overtly reference them. Hitchcock was a modernist who used myth in unconscious ways as he sought to tell effective stories in the film medium. This book treats four representative films, each from a different decade of his early career. The first two movies were produced in London: The Farmer’s Wife (1928) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934); the second two in Hollywood: Rebecca (1940) and Strangers on a Train (1951). In close readings of these movies, Padilla discusses myths and literary texts such as the Judgment of Paris, The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Aristophanes’s Frogs, Apuleius’s tale “Cupid and Psyche,” Homer’s Odyssey, and The Homeric Hymn to Hermes. Additionally, many Olympian deities and heroes have archetypal resonances in the films in question. Padilla also presents a new reading of Hitchcock’s circumstances as he entered film work in 1920 and theorizes why and how the films may be viewed as an expression of the classical tradition and of classical reception. This new and important contribution to the field of classical reception in the cinema will be of great value to classicists, film scholars, and general readers interested in these topics.
Author | : Arthur J. Pomeroy |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2017-08-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1118741358 |
Download A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen closely examines the films and TV shows centered on Greek and Roman cultures and explores the tension between pagan and Christian worlds. Written by a team of experts in their fields, this work considers productions that discuss social settings as reflections of their times and as indicative of the technical advances in production and the economics of film and television. Productions included are a mix of Hollywood and European spanning from the silent film era though modern day television series, and topics discussed include Hollywood politics in film, soundtrack and sound design, high art and low art, European art cinemas, and the ancient world as comedy. Written for students of film and television as well as those interested in studies of ancient Rome and Greece, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen provides comprehensive, current thinking on how the depiction of Ancient Greece and Rome on screen has developed over the past century. It reviews how films of the ancient world mirrored shifting attitudes towards Christianity, the impact of changing techniques in film production, and fascinating explorations of science fiction and technical fantasy in the ancient world on popular TV shows like Star Trek, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, and Dr. Who.