| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 332 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color). |
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text file |
| Series |
Metaforms: studies in the reception of classical antiquity
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Metaforms.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Ben-Hur and Gladiator: Manifest Destiny and the Contradictions of American Empire / Jon Solomon -- Muscles and Morals: Spartacus, Ancient Hero of Modern Times / Thomas Späth & Margrit Tröhler -- With Your Shield or On it: The Gender of Heroism in Zack Snyder's 300 and Rudoph Maté's The 300 Spartans / Thorsten Beigel -- 'This is Sparta!': Discourse, Gender, and the Orient in Zack Snyder's 300 / Jeroen Lauwers, Marieke Dhont & Xanne Huybrecht -- 'Everybody Loves a Muscle Boi': Homos, Heroes, and Foes in Post-9/11 Spoofs of The 300 Spartans / Ralph Poole -- The Womanizing of Mark Antony: Virile Ruthlessness and Redemptive Cross-Dressing in Rome, Season Two / Margaret M. Toscano -- Cleopatra's Venus / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Mythological Ancients -- Over his Dead Body: Male Friendship in Homer's Iliad and Wolfgang Petersen's Troy (2004) / Andreas Krass -- Models of Masculinities in Troy: Achilles, Hector and Their Female Partners / Celina Proch & Michael Kleu -- 'Include me out' -- Odysseus on the Margins of European Genre Cinema / Le Mépris, Ulisse, L'Odissea, Christian Pischel -- Between Mythical and Rational Worlds: Medea by Pier Paolo Pasolini / Lada Stevanovic -- Gender Norms and Hindu Authority in the Global Media Debate on Representing the Hindu God Krishna in Xena: Warrior Princess / Xenia Zeiler -- Mythological and Historical Thematics -- Ancient Women's Cults and Rituals in Grand Narratives on Screen: From Disney's Snow White to Olga Malea's Doughnuts with Honey / Svetlana Slapšak -- Pandora-Eve-Ava: Albert Lewin's Making of a 'Secret Goddess' / Almut-Barbara Renger -- Phryne Paves the Way for the Wirtschaftswunder: Visions of Guilt and 'Purity' Fed by Ancient Greece, Christian Narrative, and Contemporary History / Barbara Schrödl -- The New Israeli Film Beruriah: Between Rashi and Talmud, between Antiquity and Modernity, between Feminism and Religion / Tal Ilan. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Historical films -- History and criticism.
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Historical films. |
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Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures.
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Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures. |
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Civilization, Ancient, on television.
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Civilization, Ancient, on television. |
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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Sex role in motion pictures. |
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Politics in motion pictures.
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Politics in motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures and history.
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Motion pictures and history. |
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Television and history.
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Television and history. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Renger, Almut-Barbara.
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Solomon, Jon, 1950-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ancient worlds in film and television. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013 (DLC) 2012033981 |
| ISBN |
9789004183209 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004183205 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9789004241923 (e-book) |
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9004241922 (e-book) |
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1283854899 |
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9781283854894 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004241923 |
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