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Classical myth on screen /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cyrino, Monica Silveira (Editor), Safran, Meredith E., 1976- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Mythology in motion pictures.
Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures.
Civilization, Ancient, on television.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Cinemyths: classical myth on screen / Meredith E. Safran and Monica S. Cyrino
  • Part 1.
  • The hero's struggle
  • "Italian Stallion" meets "Breaker of Horses": Achilles and Hector in Rocky IV (1985) / Lisl Walsh
  • The isolated hero: Papillon (1973), Cast away (2000), and the Myth of Philoctetes / Scott A. Barnard
  • The limits of human knowledge: Oedipal problems in A serious man (2009) / Osman Umurhan
  • Orpheus in a gray flannel suit: George Nolfi's The adjustment bureau (2011) / Seán Easton
  • Part 2.
  • Fashioning the feminine
  • Dystopian Amazons: fantasies of patriarchy in Le Gladiatrici (1963) / Antony Augoustakis
  • Arya, Katniss, and Merida: empowering girls through the Amazonian archetype / Beverly J. Graf
  • The suspense thriller's Pygmalion complex: masculine desire in Vertigo (1958), Les Biches (1968), and Body double (1984) / Kaelie Thompson
  • Plastic surgery: failed Pygmalions and decomposing women in Les yeux sans visage (1960) and Bride of re-animator (1989) / Hunter H. Gardner
  • Part 3.
  • Negotiating the cosmic divide
  • Savior of the working man: Promethean allusions in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) / Alex McAuley
  • Magic, music, race: screening "Black enchantment" after Black Orpheus (1959) / Monica S. Cyrino
  • Re-conceiving Hercules: divine paternity and Christian Anxiety in Hercules (2005) / Meredith E. Safran
  • The twilight of Olympus: deicide and the end of the Greek gods / Vincent Tomasso
  • Part 4.
  • Cinemyth-making
  • Of marketing and men: making the cinematic Greek hero, 2010-2014 / Stacie Raucci
  • John Cameron Mitchell's aristophanic cinema: Hedwig and the angry inch (2001) / Lorenzo F. Garcia Jr.
  • Dionysus comes to Gotham: forces of disorder in The Dark Knight (2008) / David Bullen
  • Hypatia and Brian: early Christianity as Greek mythological drama / Anise K. Strong
  • Divine animation: Clash of the Titans (1981) / Dan Curley.