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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815390203321

Titolo

Classical myth & culture in the cinema / / edited by Martin M. Winkler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2001

2001

ISBN

0-19-802978-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Disciplina

791.43615

Soggetti

Mythology in motion pictures

Myth in motion pictures

Culture in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; I: The Katabasis Theme in Modern Cinema; II: Verbal Odysseus: Narrative Strategy in the Odyssey and in The Usual Suspects; III: Michael Cacoyannis and Irene Papas on Greek Tragedy; IV: Eye of the Camera, Eye of the Victim: Iphigenia by Euripides and Cacoyannis; V: Iphigenia: A Visual Essay; VI: Tragic Features in John Ford's The Searchers; VII: An American Tragedy: Chinatown; VIII: Tricksters and Typists: 9 to 5 as Aristophanic Comedy; IX: Ancient Poetics and Eisenstein's Films; X: Film Sense in the Aeneid

XI: Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover: A Cockney ProcneXII: The Social Ambience of Petronius' Satyricon and Fellini Satyricon; XIII: Star Wars and the Roman Empire; XIV: Teaching Classical Myth and Confronting Contemporary Myths; XV: The Sounds of Cinematic Antiquity; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z