Research Catalog

Title

Ancient worlds in film and television : gender and politics / edited by Almut-Barbara Renger and Jon Solomon.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Renger, Almut-Barbara.
• Solomon, Jon, 1950-

Description

vii, 332 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 24 cm.

Summary

"More than a century ago, filmmakers made their primary focus innovative and widely promulgated visions of antiquity, creating a profound effect on the critical, popular, and scholarly reception of antiquity. In this volume, scholars from a variety of countries and varying academic disciplines have addressed film's way of using the field of Classical Reception to investigate, contemplate, and develop hypotheses about present-day culture, society, and politics, with a particular emphasis on gender and gender roles, their relationship to one another, and how filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Metaforms: studies in the reception of classical antiquity

Uniform Title

Metaforms. Studies in the reception of classical antiquity.

Subjects

• Politics in motion pictures
• Television and history
• Motion pictures and history
• Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures
• Historical films > History and criticism
• Sex role in motion pictures
• Civilization, Ancient, on television

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

MFL 13-3197

ISBN

• 9789004183209 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004183205 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9789004241923 (e-book)
• 9004241922 (e-book)

LCCN

2012033981

OCLC

794034828

Title

Ancient worlds in film and television : gender and politics / edited by Almut-Barbara Renger and Jon Solomon.

Imprint

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Series

Metaforms: studies in the reception of classical antiquity

Metaforms. Studies in the reception of classical antiquity.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Renger, Almut-Barbara.

Solomon, Jon, 1950-

Research Call Number

MFL 13-3197