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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: Face to Face-Locating Classical Receptions on Screen; Unmasking Cinematic and Television Receptions; Part I: Beyond Fidelity; Chapter 2: Indirect or Masked Modysseys? Establishing a Working Set of Criteria; Characteristics of a Modyssey; Dishonorable or Morally Ambiguous War/Conflict; An Unwilling and/or Unconventional Heros; An Extended Nostos, Even Confinement; Sea Monsters Are Optional but Water Is Very Common; Women Play a Prominent Role in the Narrative.
Social and/or Political Change at HomePhysical and/or Emotional Changes in the Hero; Estranged or Altered Family; Re-integration of/to the Oikos and/or Gamos; Some Overt Modysseys; Modysseys Implied by Book Placement; Masked Odysseys; Chapter 3: Sacrificial Shadows: Tragic Greek Heroines Reinvented for Television in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Game of Thrones; The Gift of War: Iphigenia and Shireen; The Gift of Life: Buffy and Alcestis; Conclusion; Part II: Beyond Influence; Chapter 4: Statues, Synths, and Simulacra: The Ovidian Contours of Screen Pygmalions; When Worlds Collide.
Pygmalion As a Hybrid HeroA Sequence of Simulacra; Moving into the Realm of the Possible; Pygmalion and the Bigger Picture; Chapter 5: Artefacts, Authenticity, and Digital Idols: The Classical After-Image in Contemporary Hollywood Stardom; 'The Echo of Another Day': Classic Stardom, Cinema, and the Past; Invisible Patina: The Mask of Alexander; Past Echoes, Present Resonances, and Future Relics: The 'McConaissance'; Conclusion; Part III: Beyond Original; Chapter 6: From Album Alitem to Black Swan: Horace and Aronofsky on Poetic Perfection and Death; Receiving, Interpreting, Handing Over.
The Comparative Comparative MaterialWeird Wings; Weird Whys; Weird Wheres; Aronofsky's Album Alitem; Chapter 7: Shades of Ajax: In Search of the Tragic Hero in Modern War Movies; From 'Direct' to 'Masked' Receptions; Shades of Heroism; Did Ajax Suffer from PTSD?53; Conclusion; Filmography; Feature Films; Television Series; Bibliography; Online Resources; Index.
Social and/or Political Change at HomePhysical and/or Emotional Changes in the Hero; Estranged or Altered Family; Re-integration of/to the Oikos and/or Gamos; Some Overt Modysseys; Modysseys Implied by Book Placement; Masked Odysseys; Chapter 3: Sacrificial Shadows: Tragic Greek Heroines Reinvented for Television in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Game of Thrones; The Gift of War: Iphigenia and Shireen; The Gift of Life: Buffy and Alcestis; Conclusion; Part II: Beyond Influence; Chapter 4: Statues, Synths, and Simulacra: The Ovidian Contours of Screen Pygmalions; When Worlds Collide.
Pygmalion As a Hybrid HeroA Sequence of Simulacra; Moving into the Realm of the Possible; Pygmalion and the Bigger Picture; Chapter 5: Artefacts, Authenticity, and Digital Idols: The Classical After-Image in Contemporary Hollywood Stardom; 'The Echo of Another Day': Classic Stardom, Cinema, and the Past; Invisible Patina: The Mask of Alexander; Past Echoes, Present Resonances, and Future Relics: The 'McConaissance'; Conclusion; Part III: Beyond Original; Chapter 6: From Album Alitem to Black Swan: Horace and Aronofsky on Poetic Perfection and Death; Receiving, Interpreting, Handing Over.
The Comparative Comparative MaterialWeird Wings; Weird Whys; Weird Wheres; Aronofsky's Album Alitem; Chapter 7: Shades of Ajax: In Search of the Tragic Hero in Modern War Movies; From 'Direct' to 'Masked' Receptions; Shades of Heroism; Did Ajax Suffer from PTSD?53; Conclusion; Filmography; Feature Films; Television Series; Bibliography; Online Resources; Index.