Ancient violence in the modern imagination : the fear and the fury /

"The collected essays in this volume focus on the presentation, representation and interpretation of ancient violence -- from war to slavery, rape and murder -- in the modern visual and performing arts, with special attention to videogames and dance as well as the more usual media of film, lite...

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Tác giả khác: Berti, Irene (Biên tập viên), Castello, Maria G. (Biên tập viên), Scilabra, Carla (Biên tập viên)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Loạt:Imagines - Classical receptions in the visual and performing arts.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2564000
Mục lục:
  • The thrill of ancient violence : an introduction / Irene Berti
  • Part I. Ancient Violence in Modern and Contemporary Painting. Ancient war and modern art : some remarks on historical painting from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Antonio Duplá Ansuategui
  • Violence to valour : visualising Thais of Athens / Alex McAuley
  • Part II. Embodying Ancient and Modern Violence in Cinema and in Theatre. Screening the face of Roman battle : violence through the eyes of soldiers in film / Oskar Aguado
  • Performing violence and war trauma : Ajax on the silver screen / Anastasia Bakogianni
  • External and internal violence within the myth of Iphigenia : staging myth today / Malgorzata Budzowska
  • Kseni, the foreigner, a Brazilian Medea in action / Maria Cecilia de Miranda Nogueira Coelho
  • Part III. Dancing Violence on the Ballet Stage. Choreographies of violence : Spartacus from the Soviet Ballet to the global stage / Zoa Alonso Fernández
  • Iocaste's daughters in modernity : Anita Berber and Valeska Gert / Nicole Haitzinger
  • Dark territories of soul : Martha Graham's Clytemnestra / Ainize González García
  • Part IV. Violent Antiquity in Video Games and Comics. Si vis ludum para bellum : violence and war as the predominant language of antiquity in video games / David Serrano Lozano
  • Waging TOTAL WAR playing ATTILA : a video game's take on the migration period / Fabian Schulz
  • Sexy gory Rome : juxtapositions of sex and violence in comic book representations of ancient Rome / Luis Unceta Gómez
  • Archimedes and the war in Hitoshi Iwaaki's Eureka / Giuseppe Galeani
  • Part V. Making Reception: Ancient Violence and Living History. From ancient violence to modern celebration : complex receptions of an ancient conquest wars in Las Guerras Cántabras festival / Jonatan Pérez Mostazo
  • Drawing reception / Maria G. Castello, Fabio Ruotolo
  • Re-enacting soldiers and dressing Roman women : an interview with Danielle Fiore / Carla Scilabra, Danielle Fiore.