Ancient Epic in Film and Television /

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

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 explor...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations
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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

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