Classical Myth and Culture in the CinemaMartin M. Winkler Professor of Classics George Mason University Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema is 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 diversity of content and theoretical stances found in this volume will make it required reading for scholars and students interested in interdisciplinary approaches to text and image. |
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... close engagement with their underlying qualities . Genre cinema , such as the western , gangster , war , or science- fiction film , which at first sight has nothing in common with the ancient world , may still adapt plots or patterns ...
... close engagement with their underlying qualities . Genre cinema , such as the western , gangster , war , or science- fiction film , which at first sight has nothing in common with the ancient world , may still adapt plots or patterns ...
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... close parallel to the existence of the people who carry these objects in Plato's Cave and whose shadows appear on its wall becomes clear in the following descrip- tion by Luigi Pirandello , one of the first modern authors to address ...
... close parallel to the existence of the people who carry these objects in Plato's Cave and whose shadows appear on its wall becomes clear in the following descrip- tion by Luigi Pirandello , one of the first modern authors to address ...
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... close and strict circle " ( 1953 ) ; and : " The Muse of Cinema is the youngest of all Muses " ( 1959 ) .18 17. André Bazin , " The Myth of Total Cinema , " in What Is Cinema ?, tr . Hugh Gray , vol . 1 ( Berkeley : University of ...
... close and strict circle " ( 1953 ) ; and : " The Muse of Cinema is the youngest of all Muses " ( 1959 ) .18 17. André Bazin , " The Myth of Total Cinema , " in What Is Cinema ?, tr . Hugh Gray , vol . 1 ( Berkeley : University of ...
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... close attention if we wish to appreciate a work's true quality , its accomplishments and creative dimensions . Rigorous training in philology of the kind classical scholars undergo is the best conditioning for film analysis for what we ...
... close attention if we wish to appreciate a work's true quality , its accomplishments and creative dimensions . Rigorous training in philology of the kind classical scholars undergo is the best conditioning for film analysis for what we ...
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Contents
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Zinnemann Fred 8 n 7 122 279 n 17 | 17 |
Narrative Strategy in the Odyssey | 2 |
Michael Cacoyannis and Irene Papas on Greek Tragedy 72 | |
Iphigenia | |
A Visual Essay 102 | |
Tragic Features in John Fords The Searchers 118 | |
9 to 5 as Aristophanic Comedy 172 | |
Ancient Poetics and Eisensteins Films 193 | |
Peter Greenaways The Cook The Thief His Wife | |
The Social Ambience of Petronius Satyricon | |
Star Wars and the Roman Empire 272 | |
Teaching Classical Myth and Confronting Contemporary | |
The Sounds of Cinematic Antiquity 319 | |
Index 339 | |
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Page 19 - One might generalize by saying: the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition. By making many reproductions it substitutes a plurality of copies for a unique existence.
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Page 16 - ... feels as if in exile - exiled not only from the stage but also from himself. With a vague sense of discomfort he feels inexplicable emptiness: his body loses its corporeality, it evaporates, it is deprived of reality, life, voice, and the noises caused by his moving about, in order to be changed into a mute image, flickering an instant on the screen, then vanishing into silence. . . . The projector will play with his shadow before the public, and he himself must be content to play before the...