Classical myth and culture in the cinema / edited by Martin M. Winkler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Winkler, Martin M., editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures.

Mythology in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; I: The Katabasis Theme in Modern Cinema; II: Verbal Odysseus: Narrative Strategy in the Odyssey and in The Usual Suspects; III: Michael Cacoyannis and Irene Papas on Greek Tragedy; IV: Eye of the Camera, Eye of the Victim: Iphigenia by Euripides and Cacoyannis; V: Iphigenia: A Visual Essay; VI: Tragic Features in John Ford's The Searchers; VII: An American Tragedy: Chinatown; VIII: Tricksters and Typists: 9 to 5 as Aristophanic Comedy; IX: Ancient Poetics and Eisenstein's Films; X: Film Sense in the Aeneid

XI: Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover: A Cockney ProcneXII: The Social Ambience of Petronius' Satyricon and Fellini Satyricon; XIII: Star Wars and the Roman Empire; XIV: Teaching Classical Myth and Confronting Contemporary Myths; XV: The Sounds of Cinematic Antiquity; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770442-5

1-280-53054-5

0-19-535156-8

1-60256-370-5

OCLC:

475956769