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Author | : Martin M. Winkler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195130041 |
Download Classical Myth & Culture in the Cinema Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This title comprises 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 book illustrates the continuing presence of antiquity in the most varied and influential medium of modern popular culture. The diversity of content and theoretical stances found in this work should make this volume required reading for scholars and students interested in the presence of Greece and Rome in modern popular culture.
Author | : Martin M. Winkler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures |
ISBN | : 9780197704424 |
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This title comprises 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.
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 | : 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 | : Helen Morales |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2007-08-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0191579335 |
Download Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exert a timeless power over us. But what do those myths represent, and why are they so enduringly fascinating? Why do they seem to be such a potent way of talking about our selves, our origins, and our desires? This imaginative and stimulating Very Short Introduction goes beyond a simple retelling of the stories to explore the rich history and diverse interpretations of classical myths. It is a wide-ranging account, examining how classical myths are used and understood in both high art and popular culture, taking the reader from the temples of Crete to skyscrapers in New York, and finding classical myths in a variety of unexpected places: from arabic poetry and Hollywood films, to psychoanalysis, the bible, and New Age spiritualism. 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 | : 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 | : 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 | : Anthony Grafton |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 1188 |
Release | : 2010-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674035720 |
Download The Classical Tradition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.
Author | : Jon Solomon |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780300083378 |
Download The Ancient World in the Cinema Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This entertaining and useful book provides a comprehensive survey of films about the ancient world, from The Last Days of Pompeii to Gladiator. Jon Solomon catalogues, describes, and evaluates films set in ancient Greece and Rome, films about Greek and Roman history and mythology, films of the Old and New Testaments, films set in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Persia, films of ancient tragedies, comic films set in the ancient world, and more. The book has been updated to include feature films and made-for-television movies produced in the past two decades. More than two hundred photographs illustrate both the films themselves and the ancient sources from which their imagery derives.
Author | : William F. Hansen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0195300351 |
Download Classical Mythology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Classical Mythology offers newcomers and long-time enthusiasts new ways to navigate the world of Greek and Roman myths, beginning by exploring the landscapes where the myths are set. It then provides a richly detailed timeline of mythic episodes from the origin of the cosmos to the end of the Heroic Age--plus an illustrated mythological dictionary listing significant characters, places, events, objects, and concepts.