Classical Myth and Culture in the CinemaMartin M. Winkler 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, and for anyone interested in the presence of Greece and Rome in modern popular culture. |
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Verbal Odysseus Narrative Strategy in the Odyssey and in The Usual Suspects | 2 |
Michael Cacoyannis and Irene Papas on Greek Tragedy | |
Eye of the Camera Eye of the Victim Iphigenia by Euripides and Cacoyannis | |
Iphigenia A Visual Essay | |
Tragic Features in John Fords The Searchers | |
Ancient Poetics and Eisensteins Films | |
Film Sense in the Aeneid | |
Peter Greenaways The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover A Cockney Procne | |
The Social Ambience of Petronius Satyricon and Fellini Satyricon | |
Star Wars and the Roman Empire | |
Teaching Classical Myth and Confronting Contemporary Myths | |
The Sounds of Cinematic Antiquity | |
Index | |
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