Ancient worlds in film and television : : gender and politics / / edited by Almut-Barbara Renger and Jon Solomon.

• TeilnehmendeR: Renger, Almut-Barbara.; Solomon, Jon, 1950-
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Metaforms ; 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 pages).

More than a century ago, filmmakers made their primary focus innovative and widely promulgated visions of antiquity, creating a profound effect on the critical, popular, and scholarly reception of antiquity. In this volume, scholars from a variety of countries and varying academic disciplines have a...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction / Almut-Barbara Renger and Jon Solomon
• Ben-Hur and Gladiator: Manifest Destiny and the Contradictions of American Empire / Jon Solomon
• Muscles and Morals: Spartacus, Ancient Hero of Modern Times / Thomas Späth and Margrit Tröhler
• With Your Shield or On It: The Gender of Heroism in Zack Snyder’s 300 and Rudoph Maté’s The 300 Spartans / Thorsten Beigel
• “This is Sparta!”: Discourse, Gender, and the Orient in Zack Snyder’s 300 / Jeroen Lauwers , Marieke Dhont and Xanne Huybrecht
• “Everybook-body Loves a Muscle Boi”: Homos, Heroes, and Foes in Post-9/11 Spoofs of the 300 Spartans / Ralph J. Poole
• The Womanizing of Mark Antony: Virile Ruthlessness and Redemptive Cross-Dressing in Rome, Season Two / Margaret M. Toscano
• Cleopatra’s Venus / Elisabeth Bronfen
• Over His Dead Body: Male Friendship in Homer’s Iliad and Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy (2004) / Andreas Krass
• Models of Masculinities in Troy: Achilles, Hector and Their Female Partners / Celina Proch and Michael Kleu
• “Include me out” – Odysseus on the Margins of European Genre Cinema: Le Mépris, Ulisse, L’Odissea / Christian Pischel
• Between Mythical and Rational Worlds: Medea by Pier Paolo Pasolini / Lada Stevanović
• “Universal’s Religious Bigotry Against Hinduism”: Gender Norms and Hindu Authority in the Global Media Debate on Representing the Hindu God Krishna in Xena: Warrior Princess / Xenia Zeiler
• Ancient Women’s Cults and Rituals in Grand Narratives on Screen: From Walt Disney’s Snow White to Olga Malea’s Doughnuts with Honey / Svetlana Slapšak
• Pandora-Eve-Ava: Albert Lewin’s Making of a “Secret Goddess” / Almut-Barbara Renger
• Phryne Paves the Way for the Wirtschaftswunder: Visions of Guilt and “Purity” Fed by Ancient Greece, Christian Narrative, and Contemporary History / Barbara Schrödl
• The New Israeli Film Beruriah: Between Rashi and Talmud, between Antiquity and Modernity, between Feminism and Religion / Tal Ilan
• Index.