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Studies in the reception of classical antiquity |
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Metaforms.
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Historical films -- History and criticism.
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Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures.
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Civilization, Ancient, on television.
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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Politics in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures and history.
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Television and history.
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| Alt Name |
Renger, Almut-Barbara.
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Solomon, Jon, 1950-
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| Description |
1 online resource. |
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polychrome rdacc |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
Introduction; Historical Ancients; Ben-Hur and Gladiator: Manifest Destiny and the Contradictions of American Empire; Muscles and Morals: Spartacus, Ancient Hero of Modern Times; With Your Shield or On It: The Gender of Heroism in Zack Snyder's 300 and Rudolph Maté's The 300 Spartans; "This is Sparta!" Discourse, Gender, and the Orient in Zack Snyder's 300; "Everybody Loves a Muscle Boi": Homos, Heroes, and Foes in Post-9/11 Spoofs of the 300 Spartans; The Womanizing of Mark Antony: Virile Ruthlessness and Redemptive Cross-Dressing in Rome, Season Two; Cleopatra's Venus. |
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Mythological AncientsOver His Dead Body: Male Friendship in Homer's Iliad and Wolfgang Petersen's Troy (2004); Models of Masculinities in Troy: Achiles, Hector and Their Female Partners; "Include me out" -- Odysseus on the Margins of European Genre Cinema: Le Mépris, Ulisse, L'Odissea ; Between Mythical and Rational Worlds: Medea by Pier Paolo Pasolini ; "Universal's Religious Bigotry against Hinduism": Gender Norms and Hindu Authority in the Global Media Debate on Representing the Hindu God Krishna in Xena: Warrior Princess ; Mythological and Historical Thematics. |
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Ancient Women's Cults and Rituals in Grand Naratives on Screen: From Walt Disney's Snow White to Olga Malea's Doughnuts with Honey Pandora-Eve-Ava: Albert Lewin's Making of a "Secret Goddess" ; Phryne Paves the Way for the Wirtschaftswunder: Visions of Guilt and "Purity" Fed by Ancient Greece, Christian Narrative, and Contemporary History ; The New Israeli Film Beruriah: Between Rashi and Talmud, between Antiquity and Modernity, between Feminism and Religion ; Index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| ISBN |
9789004241923 (electronic bk.) |
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9004241922 (electronic bk.) |
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9789004183209 |
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9004183205 |
| OCLC # |
820261878 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Ancient worlds in film and television. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012 9789004183209 (DLC) 2012033981 (OCoLC)794034828 |
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