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An examination of how screen texts in the contemporary media landscape embrace, refute, and reinvent the cultural heritage of classical antiquity, this volume looks at specific story patterns and archetypes from Greco-Roman culture that are woven into the fabric of Western narrative traditions. The contributors to this volume offer a variety of historical perspectives, highlighting key cultural relay points at which a myth is received and reformulated for a particular audience. This variety is demonstrated through the broad range of screen texts that serve as case studies representing the past hundred years: from the 1927 science fiction epic Metropolis to 2012's blockbuster The Hunger Games.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Cinemyths; Monica S. Cyrino and Meredith E. Safran PART I: THE HERO'S STRUGGLE 1. "Italian Stallion" meets "Breaker of Horses": Achilles and Hector in Rocky IV (1985); Lisl Walsh 2. The Isolated Hero: Papillon (1973), Cast Away (2000), and the Myth of Philoctetes; Scott A. Barnard 3. The Limits of Human Knowledge: Oedipal Problems in A Serious Man (2009); Osman Umurhan 4. Orpheus in a Grey Flannel Suit: George Nolfi's The Adjustment Bureau (2011); Sean Easton PART II: FASHIONING THE FEMININE 5. Dystopian Amazons: Fantasies of Patriarchy in Le Gladiatrici (1963); Antony Augoustakis 6. Arya, Katniss, and Merida: Empowering Girls through the Amazonian Archetype; Beverly J. Graf 7. The Suspense Thriller's Pygmalion Complex: Masculine Desire in Vertigo (1958), Les Biches (1968), and Body Double (1984); Kaelie Thompson 8. Plastic Surgery: Failed Pygmalions and Decomposing Women in Les Yeux Sans Visage (1960) and Bride of Re-Animator (1989); Hunter Gardner PART III: NEGOTIATING THE COSMIC DIVIDE 9. Savior of the Working Man: Promethean Allusions in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927); Alex McAuley 10. Magic, Music, Race: Screening "Black Enchantment" after Black Orpheus (1959); Monica S. Cyrino 11. Re-conceiving Hercules: Reframing Divine Paternity in Hercules (2004); Meredith E. Safran 12. The Twilight of Olympus: Deicide and the End of the Greek Gods; Vince Tomasso PART IV: CINEMYTH-MAKING 13. Of Marketing and Men: Making the Cinematic Greek Hero, 2010-2014; Stacie Raucci 14. John Cameron Mitchell's Aristophanic Cinema: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001); Lorenzo F. Garcia, Jr. 15. Dionysus Comes to Gotham: Forces of Disorder in The Dark Knight (2008); David Bullen 16. Hypatia and Brian: Early Christianity as Greek Mythological Drama; Anise K. Strong 17. Divine Animation: Clash of the Titans (1981); Dan Curley

About the Author :
Monica S. Cyrino is Professor of Classics at the University of New Mexico, USA. She is the author of Aphrodite (2010), A Journey through Greek Mythology (2008), Big Screen Rome (2005), and the editor of Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World (2013), and Rome, Season One: History Makes Television (2008). She has served as an academic consultant on several recent film and television productions. Meredith E. Safran is Assistant Professor of Classics and Co-director of the Trinity Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies at Trinity College, USA. She has written about epic motifs in the film Angels & Insects (1996) and the representation of Greek tragedy on film. She regularly teaches a survey course in classical mythology.

Review :
"Hollywood and art-house movies use classical mythology as a means of thinking about contemporary preoccupations. Classical Myth on Screen is a fresh and energetic look at myth in the movies, with new insights on myth, gender, and religion, as well as the processes of cinematic myth-making. There are many delights in this collection; I will never think about Orpheus or Katniss Everdeen in quite the same way again." - Helen Morales, author of Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction


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  • ISBN-13: 9781137486035
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • ISBN-10: 1137486031
  • Publisher Date: 09 Apr 2015


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