Screening the golden ages of the classical tradition /

This collection of fourteen essays explores how the dominant media of our time - film and television - have engaged with the golden age as formulated in the Western classical tradition.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Safran, Meredith E., 1976- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Colección:Screening antiquity.
Temas:
Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures.
Civilization, Ancient, on television.
Civilisation ancienne au cinéma.
Civilisation ancienne à la télévision.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
HISTORY > Middle East > Egypt.
Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures
Civilization, Ancient, on television
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Index
  • Series Editors' Preface
  • Editor's Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Searching for Gold in an Age of Iron
  • PART I The Glory That Was Greece
  • 1 Re-(en)gendering Heroism: Reflective Nostalgia for Peplum's Golden Age of Heroes in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys 2.14 (1996)
  • 2 Kissed by the Muse of Roller-Disco: Utopia versus the Golden Ages of America, Hollywood, and Classical Myth in Xanadu (1980)
  • 3 Gilding American History through Song Culture in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
  • 4 A Leonidas for the Golden Age of Superhero Films: The Thermopylae Tradition in 300 (2006)
  • 5 The Dueling Greek Golden Ages of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)
  • 6 Confronting the Ancient Greek Golden Age in Jules Dassin's Phaedra (1962)
  • 7 Pericles, Cincinnatus, and Zombies: Classicizing Nostalgia in The Walking Dead (2010-)
  • PART II The Grandeur That Was Rome
  • 8 "All That Glitters . . .": Problematizing Golden-Age Narratives in Vergil's Aeneid and the Western Film Genre
  • 9 The Golden Age and Imperial Dominance in the Aeneid and Serenity (2005)
  • 10 Turning Gold into Lead: Sexual Pathology and the De-mythologizing of Augustus in HBO's Rome (2005-2007)
  • 11 The Dux Femina Ends Westeros' Golden Age: Cersei Lannister as Agrippina the Younger in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011-)
  • 12 The Golden Aspects of Roman Imperialism in Film, 1914-2015
  • 13 Broken Eagles: The Iron Age of Imperial Roman Warfare in Post-9/11 Film
  • 14 Dreaming of Rome with Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000)
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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