Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition / / Meredith Safran.
A survey of modern cinematic and televisual responses to the concept of the golden ageThis collection of fourteen essays explores how the dominant media of our time – film and television – have engaged with the golden age as formulated in the Western classical tradition.Drawing on ancient Greek and...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Screening Antiquity : SCAN
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 28 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Index
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Editor’s Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Searching for Gold in an Age of Iron
- PART I The Glory That Was Greece
- 1 Re-(en)gendering Heroism: Reflective Nostalgia for Peplum’s Golden Age of Heroes in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys 2.14 (1996)
- 2 Kissed by the Muse of Roller-Disco: Utopia versus the Golden Ages of America, Hollywood, and Classical Myth in Xanadu (1980)
- 3 Gilding American History through Song Culture in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
- 4 A Leonidas for the Golden Age of Superhero Films: The Thermopylae Tradition in 300 (2006)
- 5 The Dueling Greek Golden Ages of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)
- 6 Confronting the Ancient Greek Golden Age in Jules Dassin’s Phaedra (1962)
- 7 Pericles, Cincinnatus, and Zombies: Classicizing Nostalgia in The Walking Dead (2010–)
- PART II The Grandeur That Was Rome
- 8 “All That Glitters . . .”: Problematizing Golden-Age Narratives in Vergil’s Aeneid and the Western Film Genre
- 9 The Golden Age and Imperial Dominance in the Aeneid and Serenity (2005)
- 10 Turning Gold into Lead: Sexual Pathology and the De-mythologizing of Augustus in HBO’s Rome (2005–2007)
- 11 The Dux Femina Ends Westeros’ Golden Age: Cersei Lannister as Agrippina the Younger in HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–)
- 12 The Golden Aspects of Roman Imperialism in Film, 1914–2015
- 13 Broken Eagles: The Iron Age of Imperial Roman Warfare in Post-9/11 Film
- 14 Dreaming of Rome with Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000)
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index