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

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2012.

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Description 1 online resource
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Series Studies in the reception of classical antiquity
Metaforms.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This volume reinvigorates the field of Classical Reception by investigating present-day culture, society, and politics, particularly gender, gender roles, and filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity which shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices.
Note Print version record.
Contents Introduction; Historical Ancients; Ben-Hur and Gladiator: Manifest Destiny and the Contradictions of American Empire; Muscles and Morals: Spartacus, Ancient Hero of Modern Times; With Your Shield or On It: The Gender of Heroism in Zack Snyder's 300 and Rudolph Maté's The 300 Spartans; "This is Sparta!" Discourse, Gender, and the Orient in Zack Snyder's 300; "Everybody Loves a Muscle Boi": Homos, Heroes, and Foes in Post-9/11 Spoofs of the 300 Spartans; The Womanizing of Mark Antony: Virile Ruthlessness and Redemptive Cross-Dressing in Rome, Season Two; Cleopatra's Venus.
Mythological AncientsOver His Dead Body: Male Friendship in Homer's Iliad and Wolfgang Petersen's Troy (2004); Models of Masculinities in Troy: Achiles, Hector and Their Female Partners; "Include me out" -- Odysseus on the Margins of European Genre Cinema: Le Mépris, Ulisse, L'Odissea ; Between Mythical and Rational Worlds: Medea by Pier Paolo Pasolini ; "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 ; Mythological and Historical Thematics.
Ancient Women's Cults and Rituals in Grand Naratives on Screen: From Walt Disney's Snow White to Olga Malea's Doughnuts with Honey Pandora-Eve-Ava: Albert Lewin's Making of a "Secret Goddess" ; Phryne Paves the Way for the Wirtschaftswunder: Visions of Guilt and "Purity" Fed by Ancient Greece, Christian Narrative, and Contemporary History ; The New Israeli Film Beruriah: Between Rashi and Talmud, between Antiquity and Modernity, between Feminism and Religion ; Index.
Subject Historical films -- History and criticism.
Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures.
Civilization, Ancient, on television.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Politics in motion pictures.
Motion pictures and history.
Television and history.
Films historiques -- Histoire et critique.
Civilisation ancienne au cinéma.
Civilisation ancienne à la télévision.
Rôle selon le sexe au cinéma.
Politique au cinéma.
Cinéma et histoire.
Télévision et histoire.
ART -- Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures
Civilization, Ancient, on television
Historical films
Motion pictures and history
Politics in motion pictures
Sex role in motion pictures
Television and history
Klassieke oudheid.
Films.
Sekseverschillen.
Politieke aspecten.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Congressen (vorm)
Added Author Renger, Almut-Barbara.
Solomon, Jon, 1950-
Other Form: Print version: Ancient worlds in film and television. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012 9789004183209 (DLC) 2012033981 (OCoLC)794034828
ISBN 9789004241923 (electronic bk.)
9004241922 (electronic bk.)
9789004183209
9004183205
Standard No. DEBBG BV043160977
DEBSZ 421307498
DKDLA 820120-katalog:999925815705765
NLGGC 355439212
AU@ 000077139738

 
    
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