Ancient Epic in Film and Television / / ed. by Hunter Gardner, Amanda Potter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Curley, Dan,; Cyrino, Monica S.,; Day, Kirsten,; Gardner, Hunter H,; Gardner, Hunter,; Hobden, Fiona,; Kozak, Lynn,; Magerstädt, Sylvie,; Paul, Joanna,; Potter, Amanda,; Rea, Jennifer A.,; Safran, Meredith E.,; Solomon, Jon,; Stafford, Emma J,; Wynell-Mayow, Jo,
• HerausgeberIn: Gardner, Hunter,; Potter, Amanda,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Screening Antiquity : SCAN
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations

Examines representations of ancient epic and epic conventions in film and televisionDemonstrates how adaptation and revision of ancient epic conventions facilitate the articulation of emerging ideals concerning gender, class, race, and nationalityAnalyses recently emerging screen technologies exploring how these technologies have facilitated the capacity of recent films and television to augment the spatiality, distance, and ontological scope identified as crucial components of the epic genreExplores how the conventions of epic have informed televisual production as the medium enters its platinum" age of production and distributionResponds to recent work on the epic genre that has gestured toward speculative fiction as a site for the reception and development of generic conventions characteristic of ancient epicHow do epic tropes shape representations of the ancient world and determine contemporary understandings of historical events? What features of ancient epic persistently emerge in science fiction and fantasy narratives adapted to the screen, and why? How does the different scope of televisual versus cinematic media impact the representation of conventions derived from ancient epic?The international range of contributors to this volume respond to these questions by looking for features of epic outside the traditional realm of Greco-Roman antiquity, including historical films and series, fantasy, science fiction and documentary. By identifying epic conventions on the large and small screen, as well as within a range of speculative fictions in fantastical and futuristic settings, they consider the function of such conventions within their twenty-first-century production contexts."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Introduction: The Past and Future of Ancient Epic -- PART I Surge and Splendour: Ancient Epic Conventions on the Silver Screen -- 1 A View with (a) Room: Spatial Projections in Ancient and Screen Epic -- 2 Allusions to Homeric Epic in Contemporary Films, 1984–2019 -- 3 ‘Mighty Saga of the World’s Mightiest Man’: Is There Such a Thing as a Modern Hercules Epic? -- 4 Vergilian Echoes of Fate in Snowpiercer (2013): Engine and Empire without End -- 5 A Roman Epic in Modern Japan: Screening Rome as Empire Nostalgia in Takeuchi Hideki’s Thermae Romae (2012) -- 6 Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Helen of Troy and the Trojan Horse -- PART II From Gold to Platinum: Epic Conventions on the Small Screen -- 7 Revival of Mythic Epics or Epic Failure? On Gods and Heroes in the Television Shows Olympus (2015) and Troy: Fall of a City (2018) -- 8 Travels with Odysseus and the Odyssey in Twenty-First-Century Television Documentaries -- 9 Many (Un)Happy Returns in HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–2019) -- 10 The Performance of War: Battle as Spectacle in the Iliad and Into the Badlands (2015–2019) -- 11 Homeric Intimacy in NBC’s Hannibal (2013–2015) -- 12 The Gods in Epic Television: The Homeric Cosmos in Battlestar Galactica (2003–2009) -- 13 Towards a Definition of Twenty-First-Century Epic: Audience Responses to Game of Thrones (2011–2019) and His Dark Materials (2019–) as Epic Television -- Afterword -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index