Locating classical receptions on screen : masks, echoes, shadows / editors, Ricardo Apostol and Anastasia Bakogianni.
Apostol, Ricardo, editor.; Bakogianni, Anastasia, author.
2018
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Title Locating classical receptions on screen : masks, echoes, shadows / editors, Ricardo Apostol and Anastasia Bakogianni.
ISBN 9783319964577 (electronic book)
3319964577 (electronic book)
9783319964560
3319964569
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Call Number PN1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.4301
Summary This volume explores film and television sources in problematic conversation with classical antiquity, to better understand the nature of artistic reception and classical reception in particular. Drawing inspiration from well-theorized fields like adaptation studies, comparative literature, and film, the essays in this collection raise questions fundamental to the future of reception studies. The first section, ?Beyond Fidelity?, deals with idiosyncratic adaptations of ancient sources; the second section, ?Beyond Influence?, discusses modern works purporting to adapt ancient figures or themes that are less straightforwardly ancient than they may at first appear; while the last section, ?Beyond Original?, uses films that lack even these murky connections to antiquity to challenge the notion that studying reception requires establishing historical connections between works. As questions of audience, interpretation, and subjectivity are central to most contemporary fields of study, this is a collection that is of interest to a wide variety of readers in the humanities.
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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.

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