Ancient Greece In Film And Popular Culture Revised Second Edition

Author : Gideon Nisbet
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781904675785
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture written by Gideon Nisbet and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Greece in the 20th century imagination - from film to science fiction and comics - examines the preconceptions of the ancient world which cause difficulties in contemporary media.

Author : Gideon Nisbet
Publisher : Bristol Phoenix Press Greece and Rome Live
ISBN 13 : 9781904675419
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture written by Gideon Nisbet and published by Bristol Phoenix Press Greece and Rome Live. This book was released on 2006 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and expanded second edition responds to new developments in the reception of Greece in contemporary popular culture, and particularly the impact of the film 300 (2006). Why, in a century of film-making, have so few versions of the story of Alexander the Great - or that of Troy's fall - made it to the big screen? In the aftermath of Gladiator (2000), with Hollywood studios rushing to revisit the ancient world with Troy and Alexander (both 2004), this question takes on renewed significance. Nisbet unpacks the ideas that continue to make Greece hot property - often too hot for Hollywood to handle. His lively explorations, which assume no prior expertise in classical or film studies, will appeal to all with an interest in 'reception': the present day's re-use and re-invention of the past.

Author : Brett M. Rogers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199988439
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Traditions in Science Fiction written by Brett M. Rogers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all its concern with change in the present and future, science fiction is deeply rooted in the past and, surprisingly, engages especially deeply with the ancient world. Indeed, both as an area in which the meaning of "classics" is actively transformed and as an open-ended set of texts whose own 'classic' status is a matter of ongoing debate, science fiction reveals much about the roles played by ancient classics in modern times. Classical Traditions in Science Fiction is the first collection in English dedicated to the study of science fiction as a site of classical receptions, offering a much-needed mapping of that important cultural and intellectual terrain. This volume discusses a wide variety of representative examples from both classical antiquity and the past four hundred years of science fiction, beginning with science fiction's "rosy-fingered dawn" and moving toward the other-worldly literature of the present day. As it makes its way through the eras of science fiction, Classical Traditions in Science Fiction exposes the many levels on which science fiction engages the ideas of the ancient world, from minute matters of language and structure to the larger thematic and philosophical concerns.

Author : Mark William Padilla
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 149852916X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock written by Mark William Padilla and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock presents an original study of Alfred Hitchcock by considering how his classics-informed London upbringing marks some of his films. The Catholic and Irish-English Hitchcock (1899-1980) was born to a mercantile family and attended a Jesuit college preparatory, whose curriculum featured Latin and classical humanities. An important expression of Edwardian culture at-large was an appreciation for classical ideas, texts, images, and myth. Mark Padilla traces the ways that Hitchcock’s films convey mythical themes, patterns, and symbols, though they do not overtly reference them. Hitchcock was a modernist who used myth in unconscious ways as he sought to tell effective stories in the film medium. This book treats four representative films, each from a different decade of his early career. The first two movies were produced in London: The Farmer’s Wife (1928) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934); the second two in Hollywood: Rebecca (1940) and Strangers on a Train (1951). In close readings of these movies, Padilla discusses myths and literary texts such as the Judgment of Paris, The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Aristophanes’s Frogs, Apuleius’s tale “Cupid and Psyche,” Homer’s Odyssey, and The Homeric Hymn to Hermes. Additionally, many Olympian deities and heroes have archetypal resonances in the films in question. Padilla also presents a new reading of Hitchcock’s circumstances as he entered film work in 1920 and theorizes why and how the films may be viewed as an expression of the classical tradition and of classical reception. This new and important contribution to the field of classical reception in the cinema will be of great value to classicists, film scholars, and general readers interested in these topics.

Author : Alastair J.L. Blanshard
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004440062
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modern Hercules written by Alastair J.L. Blanshard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Modern Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles – the Roman Hercules – in western culture from the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring the hero’s transformations of identity and significance in a wide range of media.

Author : Anne R. Richards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1118 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslims and American Popular Culture written by Anne R. Richards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering readers an engaging, accessible, and balanced account of the contributions of American Muslims to the contemporary United States, this important book serves to clarify misrepresentations and misunderstandings regarding Muslim Americans and Islam. Unfortunately, American mass media representations of Muslims—whether in news or entertainment—are typically negative and one-dimensional. As a result, Muslims are frequently viewed negatively by those with minimal knowledge of Islam in America. This accessible two-volume work will help readers to construct an accurate framework for understanding the presence and depictions of Muslims in American society. These volumes discuss a uniquely broad array of key topics in American popular culture, including jihad and jihadis; the hejab, veil, and burka; Islamophobia; Oriental despots; Arabs; Muslims in the media; and mosque burnings. Muslims and American Popular Culture offers more than 40 chapters that serve to debunk the overwhelmingly negative associations of Islam in American popular culture and illustrate the tremendous contributions of Muslims to the United States across an extended historical period.

Author : Arthur J. Pomeroy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118741293
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen written by Arthur J. Pomeroy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen closely examines the films and TV shows centered on Greek and Roman cultures and explores the tension between pagan and Christian worlds. Written by a team of experts in their fields, this work considers productions that discuss social settings as reflections of their times and as indicative of the technical advances in production and the economics of film and television. Productions included are a mix of Hollywood and European spanning from the silent film era though modern day television series, and topics discussed include Hollywood politics in film, soundtrack and sound design, high art and low art, European art cinemas, and the ancient world as comedy. Written for students of film and television as well as those interested in studies of ancient Rome and Greece, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen provides comprehensive, current thinking on how the depiction of Ancient Greece and Rome on screen has developed over the past century. It reviews how films of the ancient world mirrored shifting attitudes towards Christianity, the impact of changing techniques in film production, and fascinating explorations of science fiction and technical fantasy in the ancient world on popular TV shows like Star Trek, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, and Dr. Who.

Author : D. O'Brien
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137384719
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Masculinity and the Spectacular Body on Film written by D. O'Brien and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The muscle-bound male body is a perennial feature of classically-inflected action cinema. This book reassesses these films as a cinematic form, focusing on the depiction of heroic masculinity. In particular, Hercules in his many incarnations has greatly influenced popular cultural interpretations of manliness and the exaggerated male form.

Author : Eran Almagor
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004347720
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture written by Eran Almagor and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture, Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a collection of chapters dealing with the reception of antiquity in modern popular media, and focusing on a comparison between ancient and modern sets of values.

Author : Trine Stauning Willert
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498563392
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Retelling the Past in Contemporary Greek Literature, Film, and Popular Culture written by Trine Stauning Willert and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past thirty years, the representation of Greek history in literature, film, and popular culture has undergone significant change. This book investigates the ways in which history operates as a tool for contemporary storytellers in various genres to contemplate the meaning of the past and its implications for the future.