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Classical myth & culture in the cinema /
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. The book illustrates the continuing presence of antiquity in the most varied and influential medium of modern...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2001.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Katabasis theme in modern cinema / Erling B. Holtsmark
- Verbal Odysseus: narrative strategy in the Odyssey and in The usual suspects / Hanna M. Roisman
- Michael Cacoyannis and Irene Papas on Greek tragedy / Marianne McDonald & Martin M. Winkler
- Eye of the camera, eye of the victim: Iphigenia by Euripides and Cacoyannis
- Iphigenia: a visual essay / Michael Cacoyannis
- Tragic features in John Ford's The searchers / Martin M. Winkler
- An American tragedy: Chinatown / Mary-Kay Gamel
- Tricksters and typists: 9 to 5 as Aristophanic comedy / James R. Brown
- Ancient poetics and Eisenstein's films / J.K. Newman
- Film sense in the Aeneid / Fred Mench
- Peter Greenaway's The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover: a Cockney procne / Janice F. Siegel
- The social ambience of Petronius' Satyricon and Fellini Satyricon / J.P. Sullivan
- Star wars and the Roman empire / Martin M. Winkler
- Teaching classical myth and confronting contemporary myths / Peter W. Rose
- The sounds of cinematic antiquity / Jon Solomon.