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Cinema and Classical Texts
Apollo''s New Light

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Martin M. Winkler is Professor of Classics at George Mason University. Klappentext Reads films as visual texts and provides the first systematic demonstration of 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.

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