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Title Epic heroes on screen / edited by Antony Augoustakis and Stacie Raucci.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 271 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Screening antiquity
Screening antiquity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Contents Introduction / Antony Augoustakis and Stacie Raucci -- 1. Hercules and the millennial generation / Jon Solomon -- 2. Hercules : the mythopoetics of new heroism / Alastair J.L. Blanshard -- 3. Hercules, Putin, and the heroic body on screen in 2014 / Emma Stafford -- 4. Heroes and companions in Hercules (2014) / Angeline Chiu -- 5. Sacrifice and salvific heroism in Supernatural (2005- ) / Meredith E. Safran -- 6. Russell Crowe and maximal projections in Noah (2014) / Monica S. Cyrino -- 7. The immortality of Theseus and his myth / Margaret M. Toscano -- 8. The changing faces of heroism in Atlantis (2013-15) / Amanda Potter -- 9. Xena : warrior, heroine, tramp / Anise K. Strong -- 10. Divergent heroism in Centurion (2010) / Hunter H. Gardner -- 11. The hero in a thousand pieces : antiheroes in recent epic cinema / Daniel Curley -- 12. Trouble in the Tehran multiplex / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones -- 13. Ancient (anti)heroes on screen and ancient Greece post-9/11 / Vincent Tomasso -- 14. Making modern (anti)heroes, the ancient way / Alex McAuley.
Summary Since 2000, numerous heroes of the ancient world have appeared on film and TV, from the mythical Hercules to leaders of the Greek and Roman worlds. This collection brings together a range of perspectives on twenty-first century cinematic representations of heroes from the ancient world.
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Subject Heroes in motion pictures.
Heroes in motion pictures.
Heroes on television.
Heroes on television.
Mythology, Classical, in motion pictures.
Mythology, Classical, in motion pictures.
Epic poetry, Classical -- Adaptations.
Epic poetry, Classical.
Genre/Form Adaptations.
Electronic books.
Adaptations.
Added Author Augoustakis, Antony, editor.
Raucci, Stacie, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Epic heroes on screen. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018] 1474424511 (OCoLC)1012617139
ISBN 9781474424523 (webready PDF)
147442452X (webready PDF)
9781474424530 (epub)
1474424538 (epub)
9781474424516 (hardback)
1474424511 (hardback)