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Ancient worlds in film and television : gender and politics /
This volume reinvigorates the field of Classical Reception by investigating present-day culture, society, and politics, particularly gender, gender roles, and filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity which shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Historical Ancients; Ben-Hur and Gladiator: Manifest Destiny and the Contradictions of American Empire; Muscles and Morals: Spartacus, Ancient Hero of Modern Times; With Your Shield or On It: The Gender of Heroism in Zack Snyder's 300 and Rudolph Maté's The 300 Spartans; "This is Sparta!" Discourse, Gender, and the Orient in Zack Snyder's 300; "Everybody Loves a Muscle Boi": Homos, Heroes, and Foes in Post-9/11 Spoofs of the 300 Spartans; The Womanizing of Mark Antony: Virile Ruthlessness and Redemptive Cross-Dressing in Rome, Season Two; Cleopatra's Venus.
- Mythological AncientsOver His Dead Body: Male Friendship in Homer's Iliad and Wolfgang Petersen's Troy (2004); Models of Masculinities in Troy: Achiles, Hector and Their Female Partners; "Include me out"
- Odysseus on the Margins of European Genre Cinema: Le Mépris, Ulisse, L'Odissea ; Between Mythical and Rational Worlds: Medea by Pier Paolo Pasolini ; "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 ; Mythological and Historical Thematics.
- Ancient Women's Cults and Rituals in Grand Naratives on Screen: From Walt Disney's Snow White to Olga Malea's Doughnuts with Honey Pandora-Eve-Ava: Albert Lewin's Making of a "Secret Goddess" ; Phryne Paves the Way for the Wirtschaftswunder: Visions of Guilt and "Purity" Fed by Ancient Greece, Christian Narrative, and Contemporary History ; The New Israeli Film Beruriah: Between Rashi and Talmud, between Antiquity and Modernity, between Feminism and Religion ; Index.