| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 376 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Classical presences |
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Classical presences.
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| Contents |
Part I: Helen. Gazing at Helen : Helen as Polysemous Icon in Robert Wise's Helen of Troy and Michael Cacoyannis' The Trojan Women / Bella Vivante ; Third Cheerleader from the Left : from Homer's Helen to Helen of Troy / Ruby Blondell -- Part II: Medea. Medea's erotic text in Jason and the Argonauts (1963) / Kirk Ormand ; Pasolini's Medea : a twentieth-century tragedy / Susan O. Shapiro ; Rebel and martyr : the Medea of Lars von Trier / Annette M. Baertschi -- Part III: Penelope. Madonna and whore' : the many faces of Penelope in Ulisse (1954) / Joanna Paul ; Why is Penelope still waiting? : the missing feminist reappraisal of the Odyssey in cinema, 1963-2007 / Edith Hall -- Part IV: Other Mythical Women. The women of Ercole / Arthur J. Pomeroy ; Annihilating Clytemnestra : the severing of the mother-daughter bond in Michael Cacoyannis' Iphigenia (1977) / Anastasia Bakogianni ; Mythic women in Tony Harrison's Prometheus / Hallie Rebecca Marshall -- Part V: Historical Women. Between family and the nation : Gorgo in the cinema / Kontantinos P. Nikoloutsos ; Representing Olympias : the politics of gender in cinematic treatments of Alexander the Great / Kristen Day ; An almost all Greek thing : Cleopatra VII and Hollywood imagination / Lloyd Lewellyn-Jones |
| Summary |
This book examines cinematic representations of ancient Greek women from the realms of myth and history, including Helen, Medea, Penelope, Clytemnestra, Iphigenia, Iole, Dianeira, Io, Gorgo, Olympias, and Cleopatra. The chapters assembled here discuss how these female figures are resurrected on the big screen at different historical junctures, and are embedded in a narrative that serves different purposes (aesthetic, socio-moral, political) depending on the director of the film, the screenwriter, the studio, the country of its origin, and the time of its production. Using a diverse array of hermeneutic approaches (gender theory, feminist criticism, gaze theory, psychoanalysis, sociological theories of religion, film history, viewer-response theory, and personal voice criticism), the chapters aim to cast light on cinema's investments in the classical past and decode the mechanisms whereby the women under examination are extracted from their original context and are brought to life to serve as vehicles for the articulation of modern ideas, concerns, and cultural trends. Binding the chapters together is the common goal to explore the dialectic of continuity and rupture that characterizes the appropriation of the women of Greek myth and history in the cinema. To this end, the volume as a whole investigates not only how antiquity on the screen distorts, compresses, contests, and revises antiquity on the page but also, more crucially, why the medium uses such eclectic representational strategies vis-à-vis the classical world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women in motion pictures -- Congresses
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Mythology, Greek -- In motion pictures -- Congresses
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Women in motion pictures.
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Mythology, Greek -- Drama
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Mythology, Greek, in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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Mythology, Greek
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Women in motion pictures
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- In motion pictures
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| Subject |
Greece
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Drama
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Drama.
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Théâtre.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nikoloutsos, Konstantinos P., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191669866 |
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0191669865 |
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9781306300315 |
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1306300312 |
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9780191760259 |
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0191760250 |
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