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Author | : Joanna Paul |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2013-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199542929 |
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Paul explores the relationship between films set in the ancient world and the classical epic tradition, arguing that there is a connection between the genres. Through this careful consideration of how epic manifests itself through different periods and cultures, we learn how cinema makes a claim to be a modern vehicle for a very ancient tradition.
Author | : John Kevin Newman |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2003-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 029910513X |
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The literary epic and critical theories about the epic tradition are traced from Aristotle and Callimachus through Apollonius, Virgil, and their successors such as Chaucer and Milton to Eisenstein, Tolstoy, and Thomas Mann. Newman's revisionist critique will challenge all scholars, students, and general readers of the classics, comparative literature, and western literary traditions.
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Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2005 |
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Author | : William Allan |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2014-03-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 019164336X |
Download Classical Literature: A Very Short Introduction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From popular histories through to reworkings of classical subject matter by contemporary poets, dramatists, and novelists, the classical world and the masterpieces of its literature continue to fascinate readers and audiences in a huge variety of media. In this Very Short Introduction, William Allan explores what the 'classics' are and why they continue to shape our Western concepts of literature. Presenting a range of material from both Greek and Latin literature, he illustrates the variety and sophistication of these works, and considers examples from all the major genres. Ideal for the general reader interested in works of classic literature, as well as students at A-Level and University, this is a lively and lucid guide to the major authors and literary forms of the ancient period. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author | : Amanda Potter |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-08-16 |
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ISBN | : 9781474473750 |
Download Ancient Epic in Film and Television Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Derek Elley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2013-12-04 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317928881 |
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As Charlton Heston put it: ‘There’s a temptingly simple definition of the epic film: it’s the easiest kind of picture to make badly.’ This book goes beyond that definition to show how the film epic has taken up one of the most ancient art-forms and propelled it into the modern world, covered in twentieth-century ambitions, anxieties, hopes and fantasies. This survey of historical epic films dealing with periods up to the end of the Dark Ages looks at epic form and discusses the films by historical period, showing how the cinema reworks history for the changing needs of its audience, much as the ancient mythographers did. The form’s main aim has always been to entertain, and Derek Elley reminds us of the glee with which many epic films have worn their label, and of the sheer fun of the genre. He shows the many levels on which these films can work, from the most popular to the specialist, each providing a considerable source of enjoyment. For instance, spectacle, the genre’s most characteristic trademark, is merely the cinema’s own transformation of the literary epic’s taste for the grandiose. Dramatically it can serve many purposes: as a resolution of personal tensions (the chariot race in Ben-Hur), of monotheism vs idolatry (Solomon and Sheba), or of the triumph of a religious code (The Ten Commandments). Although to many people Epic equals Hollywood, throughout the book Elley stresses debt to the Italian epics, which often explored areas of history with which Hollywood could never have found sympathy. Originally published 1984.
Author | : Margaret Beissinger |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 1999-03-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0520210387 |
Download Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fourteen essays on epic, oral and literary, from ancient to modern, from the Americas to India.
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 | : Marguerite Johnson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2019-03-21 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1350021253 |
Download Antipodean Antiquities Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on modern literature, film, theatre and fine art, this volume fills a decisive gap in the literature by bringing antipodean research into the spotlight. Following a contextual introduction to the field, the six parts of the volume explore the latest research on subjects that range from the Lord of the Rings and Xena: Warrior Princess franchises to important artists such as Sidney Nolan and local authors whose work offers opportunities for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis with well-known Western authors and artists.
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.