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Author: Martin M. Winkler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-02-29
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 1009396714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first systematic study of classical literature and arts to explain their close affinities with modern visual technologies and media.
Author: Martin M. Winkler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-02-29
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 1009396722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book aims to enhance our appreciation of the modernity of the classical cultures and, conversely, of cinema's debt to ancient Greece and Rome. It explores filmic perspectives on the ancient verbal and visual arts and applies what is often referred to as pre-cinema and what Sergei Eisenstein called cinematism: that paintings, statues, and literature anticipate modern visual technologies. The motion of bodies depicted in static arts and the vividness of epic ecphrases point to modern features of storytelling, while Plato's Cave Allegory and Zeno's Arrow Paradox have been related to film exhibition and projection since the early days of cinema. The book additionally demonstrates the extensive influence of antiquity on an age dominated by moving-image media, as with stagings of Odysseus' arrow shot through twelve axes or depictions of the Golden Fleece. Chapters interpret numerous European and American silent and sound films and some television productions and digital videos.
Author: Marta Garcia Morcillo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-02-11
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1135013179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn film imagery, urban spaces show up not only as spatial settings of a story, but also as projected ideas and forms that aim to recreate and capture the spirit of cultures, societies and epochs. Some cinematic cities have even managed to transcend fiction to become part of modern collective memory. Can we imagine a futuristic city not inspired at least remotely by Fritz Lang’s Metropolis? In the same way, ancient Babylon, Troy and Rome can hardly be shaped in popular imagination without conscious or subconscious references to the striking visions of Griffiths’ Intolerance, Petersen’s Troy and Scott’s Gladiator, to mention only a few influential examples. Imagining Ancient Cities in Film explores for the first time in scholarship film representations of cities of the Ancient World from early cinema to the 21st century. The volume analyzes the different choices made by filmmakers, art designers and screen writers to recreate ancient urban spaces as more or less convincing settings of mythical and historical events. In looking behind and beyond intended archaeological accuracy, symbolic fantasy, primitivism, exoticism and Hollywood-esque monumentality, this volume pays particular attention to the depiction of cities as faces of ancient civilizations, but also as containers of moral ideas and cultural fashions deeply rooted in the contemporary zeitgeist and in continuously revisited traditions.
Author: Martin M. Winkler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-14
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1107191289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines different affinities between major classical authors and great filmmakers alongside representations of ancient myth and history in popular cinema.
Author: Alastair J. L. Blanshard
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Published: 2011-12-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780715637241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCinema loves Greece and Rome. Hollywood epics, animated movies, avant-garde features - all have turned to classical antiquity for inspiration. On the silver screen, we see a world of virtuous Christians, depraved pagans, gladiators, charioteers, Spartan warriors, and muscle-bound demigods - a potent mix of sex, violence and art. So pervasive are these images that this cinematic output dominates the public understanding of the ancient world. Through analysis of ten influential films, this book examines the representation of Greece and Rome in both popular and art-house cinema, arranged by cinematic genre. Key scenes are discussed and each film is located in its historical context.
Author: Pantelis Michelakis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-08-15
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 110701610X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first systematic attempt to focus on the instrumental role of silent cinema in early twentieth-century conceptualizations of the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East. It is located at the intersection of film studies, classics, Bible studies and cultural studies.
Author: Arthur J. Pomeroy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2017-08-07
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 1118741358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen closely examines the films and TV shows centered on Greek and Roman cultures and explores the tension between pagan and Christian worlds. Written by a team of experts in their fields, this work considers productions that discuss social settings as reflections of their times and as indicative of the technical advances in production and the economics of film and television. Productions included are a mix of Hollywood and European spanning from the silent film era though modern day television series, and topics discussed include Hollywood politics in film, soundtrack and sound design, high art and low art, European art cinemas, and the ancient world as comedy. Written for students of film and television as well as those interested in studies of ancient Rome and Greece, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen provides comprehensive, current thinking on how the depiction of Ancient Greece and Rome on screen has developed over the past century. It reviews how films of the ancient world mirrored shifting attitudes towards Christianity, the impact of changing techniques in film production, and fascinating explorations of science fiction and technical fantasy in the ancient world on popular TV shows like Star Trek, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, and Dr. Who.
Author: Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2013-11-28
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 0191669865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines cinematic representations of ancient Greek women from the realms of myth and history. It discusses how these female figures are resurrected on the big screen by different filmmakers during different historical moments, and are therefore embedded within a narrative which serves various purposes, depending on the director of the film, its screenwriters, the studio, the country of its origin, and the sociopolitical context at the time of its production. Using a diverse array of hermeneutic approaches (such as gender theory, feminist criticism, psychoanalysis, viewer-response theory, and personal voice criticism), the essays aim to cast light on cinema's investments in the classical past and decode the mechanisms whereby the women under examination are extracted from their original context and are brought to life to serve as vehicles for the articulation of modern ideas, concerns, and cultural trends. The volume thus aims to investigate not only how antiquity on the screen depicts, and in this process distorts, compresses, contests, and revises, antiquity on the page but also, more crucially, why the medium follows such eclectic representational strategies vis-à-vis the classical world.
Author: Martin M. Winkler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-30
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 1108485405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first study of Ovid, especially his Metamorphoses, as inherently visual literature, explaining his pervasive importance in our visual media.
Author: Silke Knippschild
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-10-10
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1441177469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on a conference held at the University of Bristol in September, 2010.
