Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World

2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-29959-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4679 g

This dynamic collection of essays by international film scholars and classicists addresses the provocative representation of sexuality in the ancient world on screen. A critical reader on approaches used to examine sexuality in classical settings, contributors use case studies from films and television series spanning from the 1920s to the present.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cyrino, Monica S

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Screening Love & Sex in the Ancient World; M.S.Cyrino PART I: SCREENING LOVE AND SEX IN ANCIENT MYTH AND LITERATURE G. W. Pabst's Hesiodic Myth of Sex in Die Büchse der Pandora (1929); L.F.Garcia, Jr. Kiss Me Deadly (1955): Pandora and Prometheus in Robert Aldrich's Cinematic Subversion of Spillane; P.James Perversions of the Phaeacians: The Gothic Odyssey of Angels & Insects (1996); M.Safran Woman Trouble: True Love and Homecoming in Pedro Almodóvar's Volver (2006); C.Pache Sappho and Pocahontas in Terrence Malick's The New World (2005); S.Easton Soul Fuck: Possession and the Female Body in Antiquity and in Cinema; K.Day Ancient Allusions and Modern Anxieties in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954); C.M.McDonough PART II: SCREENING LOVE AND SEX IN ANCIENT HISTORY Gorgo at the Limits of Liberation in Zack Snyder's 300 (2006); V.Tomasso Oliver Stone's Unmanning of Alexander the Great in Alexander (2004); J.B.Pierce The Order of Orgies: Sex and the Cinematic Roman; S.Raucci Partnership and Love in Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010); A.Augoustakis Objects of Desire: Female Gazes and Male Bodies in Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010); A.K.Strong Glenn Close Channels Theda Bara in Maxie (1985): A Chapter in the Social History of the Snake Bra; G.N.Daugherty Virility and Licentiousness in Rome 's Mark Antony (2005-07); R.Kelly Love, Rebellion, and Cleavage: Boadicea's Hammered Breastplate in The Viking Queen (1967); A.Futrell Subverting Sex and Love in Alejandro Amenábar's Agora (2009); J.Paul

Über Autor(innen)

ANTONY AUGOUSTAKIS University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
GREGORY N. DAUGHERTY Randolph-Macon College, USA
KIRSTEN DAY Augustana College, USA
SEÁN EASTON Gustavus Adolphus College, USA
ALISON FUTRELL University of Arizona, USA
LORENZO F. GARCIA JR. University of New Mexico, USA
PAULA JAMES The Open University
RACHAEL KELLY University of Ulster, UK
CHRISTOPHER M. MCDONOUGH University of the South, USA
CORINNE PACHE Trinity University, USA
JOANNA PAUL The Open University
JERRY B. PIERCE Penn State Hazleton University, USA
STACIE RAUCCI Union College, USA
MEREDITH SAFRAN Drew University, USA
ANISE K. STRONG Western Michigan University, USA
VINCENT TOMASSO Ripon College, UK