Ancient worlds in film and television : gender and politics /

Ancient worlds in film and television : gender and politics /

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 a...

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Other Authors: Renger, Almut-Barbara., Solomon, Jon, 1950-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2013.

Series: Metaforms 1.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248663.

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Historical films > History and criticism.
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.

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Call Number: PN1995.9.H5 A55 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction /
  • Almut-Barbara Renger and Jon Solomon
  • 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 and 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 and Xanne Huybrecht
  • "Everybook-body Loves a Muscle Boi": Homos, Heroes, and Foes in Post-9/11 Spoofs of the 300 Spartans /
  • Ralph J. Poole
  • The Womanizing of Mark Antony: Virile Ruthlessness and Redemptive Cross-Dressing in Rome, Season Two /
  • Margaret M. Toscano
  • Cleopatra's Venus /
  • Elisabeth Bronfen
  • 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 and 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 Stevanović
  • "Universal's Religious Bigotry Against Hinduism": Gender Norms and Hindu Authority in the Global Media Debate on Representing the Hindu God Krishna in Xena: Warrior Princess /
  • Xenia Zeiler
  • Ancient Women's Cults and Rituals in Grand Narratives on Screen: From Walt 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
  • Index.