Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Safran, Meredith,
MitwirkendeR:
Day, Kirsten,
Easton, Seán,
Gawlinski, Laura,
McAuley, Alex,
Platte, Ryan,
Prince, Meredith D.,
Rea, Jennifer A,
Ross, Eric,
Safran, Meredith E.,
Scioli, Emma,
Strong, Anise K.,
Taylor, Matthew,
Tomasso, Vincent,
West, Thomas J.,
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

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