Greek Tragedy on Screen

Zusatztext ...a valuable addition to the series of Classical Presences of Oxford University Press... Informationen zum Autor Pantelis Michelakis is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol. His research interests are in the fields of Greek literature, theatre and culture, and their reception in the modern world. He is the author of Achilles in Greek Tragedy (CUP, 2002) and Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis (Duckworth, 2006). He has also coedited Homer, Tragedy and Beyond: Essays in Honour of PE Easterling (SPHS, 2002), Agamemnon in Performance, 458 BC - AD 2004 (OUP, 2005), and The Ancient World in Silent Cinema (CUP, 2013). Klappentext Greek Tragedy on Screen considers a wide range of films which engage openly with narrative and performative aspects of Greek tragedy, and situates these films within the context of on-going debates in film criticism and reception theory in relation to theoretical or critical readings of tragedy in contemporary culture. Zusammenfassung Greek Tragedy on Screen considers a wide range of films which engage openly with narrative and performative aspects of Greek tragedy, and situates these films within the context of on-going debates in film criticism and reception theory in relation to theoretical or critical readings of tragedy in contemporary culture.

Product details

• Authors: Pantelis Michelakis, Pantelis (Senior Lecturer in Classics Michelakis, Michelakis Pantelis
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.2013
• EAN: 9780199239078
• ISBN: 978-0-19-923907-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Classical Presences; Classical Presences
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Literature - Classics / Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism