Cinema and Classical Texts - Apollo's New Light

Klappentext This book interprets films as visual texts and demonstrates the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema. Zusammenfassung This book interprets films as visual texts and provides the first systematic theoretical and practical demonstration of the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema. Covering a wide range of European and American directors! genres and classical authors! it provides an innovative perspective on the two disciplines of classics and cinema. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: the god of light and the cinema eye; 1. A certain tendency in classical philology; 2. Divine epiphanies: Apollo and the Muses; 3. The complexities of Oedipus; 4. Patriotism and war: 'Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country'; 5. Helen of Troy: marriage and adultery according to Hollywood; 6. Women in love; Epilogues: 'Bright shines the light'; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Martin M. Winkler, Martin M. (George Mason University Winkler, Winkler Martin M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.05.2012
• EAN: 9781107404366
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40436-6
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Latin, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Films, cinema, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval