Classical antiquity and the cinematic imagination / Martin M. Winkler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winkler, Martin M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures and literature.

Classical literature--Influence.

Classical literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 530 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Demonstrates the affinities between antiquity and today by interpreting several themes in classical literature and arts and illustrating these with numerous films, ranging from silents, classic Hollywood, and European popular and art films to documentaries, animation, and digital media and special effects"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Imprints page

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

I Prolegomena

Chapter 1 Fade-In

1 Antiquity, the Cinema, and New Ways of Seeing

2 Film Directors on Antiquity

3 On Reading and Viewing

II Progymnasmata: Ways of Seeing

Chapter 2 Douris' Jason: Reckless Interpretations and the Ongoing Moment

1 The Literary Background of Douris' Image

2 Gerhard, Welcker, Robert: Clashes of Academic Titans

3 From Lycophron to Simon and Giangrande

4 Douris' Visual Narrative and the Aristotelian Now

5 The Now as kairos: Lessing's ""Fruitful Moment

6 Enter Photography: Cartier-Bresson's ""Decisive Moment

7 Ways of Seeing the Ongoing Moment

Chapter 3 Classical Cinematism

1 Aristotle and the camera obscura

2 Francastel and the Birth of Pre-Cinema

3 Word and Image: A Pre-Cinema Survey

4 Heron, the camera obscura, and Damascius

5 Homo cinematographicus: The Cinema as Aristotelian Thought Machine

III Complex Cinematism

Chapter 4 Motion Images in Ecphrases

1 Homer the Painter, Homer the Filmmaker

2 Lessing on Text and Image

3 After Lessing: Eisenstein's Homer

4 Catullus and Virgil

Chapter 5 Shadows and Caves: The Cinema as Platonic Idea and Reality

1 In Plato's Cave

2 Shadow Play: Mistaking the False for the True

3 Bergson and the Philosophy of the Cinematographic Mind

4 Plato's Cave on Screen: La Jetée, The Conformist, and Related Films

5 The Cinema Returns to and from Plato's Cave

6 Light and Shadows

7 The Platonic, Cinematically

8 ""The Like Real World

9 Varda and Ophuls on Memory and History

Chapter 6 Static Flight: Zeno's Arrow and Cinematographic Motion

1 The Filmstrip and the Arrow's Flight

2 Zeno and Motion on Film: Pro and Con

3 High-Speed Photography, Bullet Time, and Beyond

4 Zeno's Onscreen Comedy Cameo

Chapter 7 Lucretius: Dream Images and Beyond the Infinite

1 Cinematic Illusions: Lucretius on Dreams

2 Sinsteden and Plateau on Lucretius

3 The Aftermath

4 Lucretius and Screen Media: Varieties and Vicissitudes

5 2001: A Space Odyssey as Lucretian Film

Chapter 8 The Cinematic Nature of the Opening Scene in Heliodorus' An Ethiopian Story

1 Heliodorus' Opening and Cinematic Technique

2 Heliodorus' Opening as Screenplay

3 Comments

4 Cinematic Parallels: Welles's Touch of Evil and Hitchcock's Psycho

5 Classical Rhetoric and Cinematic Style

6 Complex Flashbacks

7 Lying Flashbacks

Chapter 9 The Face of Tragedy: Mask and Close-Up

1 Tragedy on Stage and Screen

2 Masks and Faces in Tragedy

3 The Emotional Power of Mask and Close-Up

4 The Close-Up: Revelation of the Invisible

5 Garbo's Face: A Beautiful Zero

IV The Cinema Imagines Difficult Texts

Chapter 10 Apollonius and the Golden Fleece

or, The Case of the Missing Ecphrasis

1 The Golden Fleece in Apollonius' Argonautica

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Feb 2024).

ISBN:

9781009396721

1009396722

9781009396738

1009396730

9781009396691

1009396692