Wow! eBook
Ancient Worlds in Film and Television: Gender and Politics: 1
Author(s): Almut-Barbara Renger (Editor), Jon Solomon
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 13 Nov. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 340 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004183205
- ISBN-13: 9789004183209
Book Description
More than a century ago, filmmakers made their primary focus innovative and widely promulgated visions of antiquity, creating a profound effect on the critical, popular, and scholarly reception of antiquity. In this volume, scholars from a variety of countries and varying academic disciplines have addressed film’s way of using the field of Classical Reception to investigate, contemplate, and develop hypotheses about present-day culture, society, and politics, with a particular emphasis on gender and gender roles, their relationship to one another, and how filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“[A] obra é um rico contributo no justificar da percepção de como a indústria do cinema tem ajudado à nossa compreensão de nós mesmos, da nossa cultura e sociedade, e de como o conhecimento cultural e social, bem como a experiência, pode ser veiculado pelos filmes e pelas imagens” Ricardo Duarte, CADMO, Revista de História Antiga 23 (2014), pp. 249-252.
About the Author
Almut-Barbara Renger, Dr. phil. (2001), Freie Universität Berlin, is Professor of Ancient Religions, Cultures and their Reception History. She has published monographs, anthologies and many articles on receptions of classical antiquity, including Oedipus and the Sphinx: The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau (2013).
Jon Solomon, Robert D. Novak Professor of Western Civilization and Culture, and Professor of the Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, works on the classical tradition in cinema and opera. His publications include The Ancient World in the Cinema (2001) and Volume I of the I Tatti translation and edition of Boccaccio’s Genealogy of the Pagan Gods (2011).
Contributors: Thorsten Beigel, Elisabeth Bronfen, Marieke Dhont, Xanne Huybrecht, Tal Ilan, Michael Kleu, Andreas Krass, Jeroen Lauwers, Christian Pischel, Ralph J. Poole, Celina Proch, Almut-Barbara Renger, Barbara Schrödl, Svetlana Slapšak, Jon Solomon, Thomas Späth, Lada Stevanović, Margaret M. Toscano, Margrit Tröhler, Xenia Zeiler
