Ancient worlds in film and television : gender and politics / edited by Almut-Barbara Renger and Jon Solomon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Renger, Almut-Barbara.

Solomon, Jon, 1950-

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Metaforms. Studies in the reception of classical antiquity.

Metaforms: studies in the reception of classical antiquity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical films--History and criticism.

Historical films.

Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures.

Civilization, Ancient, on television.

Sex role in motion pictures.

Politics in motion pictures.

Motion pictures and history.

Television and history.

Physical Description:

vii, 332 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Summary:

"More than a century ago, filmmakers made their primary focus innovative and widely promulgated visions of antiquity, creating a profound effect on the critical, popular, and scholarly reception of antiquity. In this volume, scholars from a variety of countries and varying academic disciplines have addressed film's way of using the field of Classical Reception to investigate, contemplate, and develop hypotheses about present-day culture, society, and politics, with a particular emphasis on gender and gender roles, their relationship to one another, and how filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Ben-Hur and Gladiator: Manifest Destiny and the Contradictions of American Empire / Jon Solomon

Muscles and Morals: Spartacus, Ancient Hero of Modern Times / Thomas Späth & Margrit Tröhler

With Your Shield or On it: The Gender of Heroism in Zack Snyder's 300 and Rudoph Maté's The 300 Spartans / Thorsten Beigel

'This is Sparta!': Discourse, Gender, and the Orient in Zack Snyder's 300 / Jeroen Lauwers, Marieke Dhont & Xanne Huybrecht

'Everybody Loves a Muscle Boi': Homos, Heroes, and Foes in Post-9/11 Spoofs of The 300 Spartans / Ralph Poole

The Womanizing of Mark Antony: Virile Ruthlessness and Redemptive Cross-Dressing in Rome, Season Two / Margaret M. Toscano

Cleopatra's Venus / Elisabeth Bronfen

Mythological Ancients

Over his Dead Body: Male Friendship in Homer's Iliad and Wolfgang Petersen's Troy (2004) / Andreas Krass

Models of Masculinities in Troy: Achilles, Hector and Their Female Partners / Celina Proch & Michael Kleu

'Include me out' - Odysseus on the Margins of European Genre Cinema / Le Mépris, Ulisse, L'Odissea, Christian Pischel

Between Mythical and Rational Worlds: Medea by Pier Paolo Pasolini / Lada Stevanovic

Gender Norms and Hindu Authority in the Global Media Debate on Representing the Hindu God Krishna in Xena: Warrior Princess / Xenia Zeiler

Mythological and Historical Thematics

Ancient Women's Cults and Rituals in Grand Narratives on Screen: From Disney's Snow White to Olga Malea's Doughnuts with Honey / Svetlana Slapšak

Pandora-Eve-Ava: Albert Lewin's Making of a 'Secret Goddess' / Almut-Barbara Renger

Phryne Paves the Way for the Wirtschaftswunder: Visions of Guilt and 'Purity' Fed by Ancient Greece, Christian Narrative, and Contemporary History / Barbara Schrödl

The New Israeli Film Beruriah: Between Rashi and Talmud, between Antiquity and Modernity, between Feminism and Religion / Tal Ilan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9004183205

9789004183209

9789004241923

9004241922

OCLC:

794034828

Publisher Number:

99954758917