Ancient worlds in film and television gender and politics
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 a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Almut-Barbara Renger and Jon Solomon
- 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 and 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 and Xanne Huybrecht
- “Everybook-body Loves a Muscle Boi”: Homos, Heroes, and Foes in Post-9/11 Spoofs of the 300 Spartans / Ralph J. Poole
- The Womanizing of Mark Antony: Virile Ruthlessness and Redemptive Cross-Dressing in Rome, Season Two / Margaret M. Toscano
- Cleopatra’s Venus / Elisabeth Bronfen
- 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 and 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 Stevanović
- “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 / Xenia Zeiler
- Ancient Women’s Cults and Rituals in Grand Narratives on Screen: From Walt 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
- Index.
