Epic heroes on screen /
Since 2000, numerous heroes of the ancient world have appeared on film and TV, from the mythical Hercules to leaders of the Greek and Roman worlds. This collection brings together a range of perspectives on twenty-first century cinematic representations of heroes from the ancient world.
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
[2018]
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| Edice: | Screening antiquity.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv7h0vsn |
Obsah:
- Introduction / Antony Augoustakis and Stacie Raucci
- 1. Hercules and the millennial generation / Jon Solomon
- 2. Hercules : the mythopoetics of new heroism / Alastair J.L. Blanshard
- 3. Hercules, Putin, and the heroic body on screen in 2014 / Emma Stafford
- 4. Heroes and companions in Hercules (2014) / Angeline Chiu
- 5. Sacrifice and salvific heroism in Supernatural (2005- ) / Meredith E. Safran
- 6. Russell Crowe and maximal projections in Noah (2014) / Monica S. Cyrino
- 7. The immortality of Theseus and his myth / Margaret M. Toscano
- 8. The changing faces of heroism in Atlantis (2013-15) / Amanda Potter
- 9. Xena : warrior, heroine, tramp / Anise K. Strong
- 10. Divergent heroism in Centurion (2010) / Hunter H. Gardner
- 11. The hero in a thousand pieces : antiheroes in recent epic cinema / Daniel Curley
- 12. Trouble in the Tehran multiplex / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- 13. Ancient (anti)heroes on screen and ancient Greece post-9/11 / Vincent Tomasso
- 14. Making modern (anti)heroes, the ancient way / Alex McAuley.