商品簡介
The first volume of the new series Metaforms: Studies in the Reception of Classical Antiquity, this collection examines the gendered and political implications of representations of Greco-Roman antiquity in cinema, television, and video. Fifteen papers are presented by editors Renger (Freie U. Berlin, Germany) and Solomon (U. of Illinois, US) that address such topics as: Hollywood representations of antiquity as codification of American notions of manifest destiny, the social construction of masculinity in filmic depictions of Spartacus, gender and gender relations in Zack Snyder's 300, cultural hybridity and portrayals of Cleopatra on film, depictions of masculinities in Wolfgang Peterson's Troy, the controversy over the depiction of the Hindu god Krishna as helping a lesbian couple in an episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, and the incorporation of the Hesiodic Pandora tradition in Albert Lewin's Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Almut-Barbara Renger, Dr. phil. (2001), Freie Universitat Berlin, is Professor of Ancient Religions, Cultures and their Reception History. She has published monographs, anthologies and many articles on receptions of classical antiquity, including Oedipus and the Sphinx: The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau (2013).Jon Solomon, Robert D. Novak Professor of Western Civilization and Culture, and Professor of the Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, works on the classical tradition in cinema and opera. His publications include The Ancient World in the Cinema (2001) and Volume I of the I Tatti translation and edition of Boccaccio’s Genealogy of the Pagan Gods (2011).Contributors: Thorsten Beigel, Elisabeth Bronfen, Marieke Dhont, Xanne Huybrecht, Tal Ilan, Michael Kleu, Andreas Krass, Jeroen Lauwers, Christian Pischel, Ralph J. Poole, Celina Proch, Almut-Barbara Renger, Barbara Schrodl, Svetlana Slap?ak, Jon Solomon, Thomas Spath, Lada Stevanovic, Margaret M. Toscano, Margrit Trohler, Xenia Zeiler