Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4084-4 (ISBN)
Drawing on ancient Greek and Roman literature and culture, from Hesiod to Suetonius, these essays assess the far-reaching influence of the golden age concept on screen texts ranging from prestige projects like Gladiator and HBO's Rome, to cult classics Xanadu and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, made by auteurs including Jules Dassin and the Coen Brothers. The book also looks at fantasy (Game of Thrones), science fiction (Serenity), horror (The Walking Dead), war/combat (the 300 franchise; Centurion), and the American Western.
Meredith E. Safran is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut (USA). She has written multiple papers for journals and edited collections. She is the co-editor of Roman Comedy: Performance, Pedagogy, Research and of Classical Myth on Screen (both 2015). Her work has also appeared in Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World (2013) and Blackwell’s Companion to the Ancient Greek and Roman World on Screen (2017). She earned her PhD in Classics from Princeton University.
Series Editors’ preface, Editor’s Acknowledgments, List of Contributors, List of Illustrations
Introduction: Searching for Gold in an Age of Iron, Meredith E. Safran
Part I: The Glory That Was Greece
1. Re-(en)gendering Heroism: Reflective Nostalgia for Peplum’s Golden Age of Heroes in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys 2.14 (1996), Vincent Tomasso
2. Kissed by the Muse of Roller-disco: Utopia versus the Golden Ages of America, Hollywood, and Classical Myth in Xanadu (1980), Meredith E. Safran
3. Gilding American History through Song Culture in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Ryan Platte
4. A Leonidas for the Golden Age of Superhero Films: The Thermopylae Tradition in 300 (2006), Eric Ross
5. The Dueling Greek Golden Ages of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), Seán Easton
6. Confronting the Ancient Greek Golden Age in Jules Dassin’s Phaedra (1962), Emma Scioli
7. Pericles, Cincinnatus, and Zombies: Classicizing Nostalgia in The Walking Dead (2010-), Laura Gawlinski
Part II: The Grandeur That Was Rome
8. "All That Glitters…": Problematizing Golden-Age Narratives in Vergil’s Aeneid and the Western Film Genre, Kirsten Day
9. The Golden Age and Imperial Dominance in the Aeneid and Serenity (2005), Jennifer A. Rea
10. Turning Gold into Lead: Sexual Pathology and the De-mythologizing of Augustus in HBO’s Rome (2005-2007), Thomas J. West III
11. The Dux Femina Ends Westeros’ Golden Age: Cersei Lannister as Agrippina the Younger in HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011 - ), Meredith D. Prince
12. The Golden Aspects of Roman Imperialism in Film, 1914-2015, Anise K. Strong
13. Broken Eagles: The Iron Age of Imperial Roman Warfare in Post-9/11 Film, Alex McAuley
14. Dreaming of Rome with Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000), Matthew Taylor
Filmography, Bibliography, Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.12.2018 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Screening Antiquity |
| Zusatzinfo | 28 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 670 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-4084-3 / 1474440843 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-4084-4 / 9781474440844 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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