Ancient Violence In The Modern Imagination

Author : Irene Berti,Filippo Carlà-Uhink,Maria G. Castello,Carla Scilabra,Martin Lindner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350195035

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Ancient Violence in the Modern Imagination by Irene Berti,Filippo Carlà-Uhink,Maria G. Castello,Carla Scilabra,Martin Lindner Pdf

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 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 -- Coreographies 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 Videogames and Comics -- Si vis ludum para bellum: Violence and War as 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.

Author : Irene Berti,Maria G. Castello,Carla Scilabra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350075399

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Ancient Violence in the Modern Imagination by Irene Berti,Maria G. Castello,Carla Scilabra Pdf

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, literature and theatre. Violence, fury and the dread that they provoke are factors that appear frequently in the ancient sources. The dark side of antiquity, so distant from the ideal of purity and harmony that the classical heritage until recently usually called forth, has repeatedly struck the imagination of artists, writers and scholars across ages and cultures. A global assembly of contributors, from Europe to Brazil and from the US to New Zealand, consider historical and mythical violence in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus and the 2010 TV series of the same name, in Ridley Scott's Gladiator, in the work of Lars von Trier, and in Soviet ballet and the choreography of Martha Graham and Anita Berber. Representations of Roman warfare appear in videogames such as Ryse: Son of Rome and Total War, as well as recent comics, and examples from both these media are analysed in the volume. Finally, interviews with two artists offer insight into the ways in which practitioners understand and engage with the complex reception of these themes.

Author : Adeline Grand-Clément,Charlotte Ribeyrol
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350169746

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The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination by Adeline Grand-Clément,Charlotte Ribeyrol Pdf

This volume tackles the role of smell, under-explored in relation to the other senses, in the modern rejection, reappraisal and idealisation of antiquity. Among the senses olfaction in particular has often been overlooked in classical reception studies due to its evanescent nature, which makes this sense difficult to apprehend in its past instantiations. And yet, the smells associated with a given figure or social group convey a rich imagery which in turn connotes specific values: perfumes, scents and foul odours both reflect and mould the ways in which a society thinks or acts. Smells also help to distinguish between male and female, citizens and strangers, and play an important role during rituals. The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination focuses on the representation of ancient smells - both enticing and repugnant - in the visual and performative arts from the late 18th century up to the 21st century. The individual contributions explore painting, sculpture, literature and film, but also theatrical performance, museum exhibitions, advertising, television series, historical reenactment and graphic novels, which have all played a part in reshaping modern audiences' perceptions and experiences of the antique.

Author : Mirella Romero Recio
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350277908

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Pompeii in the Visual and Performing Arts by Mirella Romero Recio Pdf

This volume examines the influence that Pompeii and, to a lesser extent, Herculaneum had on the visual and performing arts in Spain and countries across South America. Covering topics from architecture, painting and decorative arts to theatre, dance and photography, the reader will gain insight into the reception of classical antiquity through the analysis of the close cultural ties between both sides of the Atlantic, in the past and the present. Each contribution has been written by a specialist researcher participating in the project, 'The Reception and Influence of Pompeii and Herculaneum in Spain and Ibero-America', funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PGC2018-093509-B-I00 Ministry of Science and Innovation/AEI/ERDF/EU). Pompeii in the Visual and Performing Arts begins by examining the influence of Pompeiian architecture in Spain in paintings that depict scenes inspired by Roman scenes and also buildings modelled on those of Pompeii. Next, the influence of Pompeii crosses the Atlantic to Mexico with a study of the archaeological site's influence on the visual and performing arts. An exploration of the elitist use of the ancient past in architecture is seen in Chilean architecture, which leads onto an investigation of the new art styles that emerged in the 19th century. Later chapters look into the influence of the ancient frescoes and the use of modern plaster casts of statues. The final chapters are devoted to comics and photography, which also make a study of the places in Latin America nicknamed 'Pompeii' in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Author : Gregory N. Daugherty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350340749

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The Reception of Cleopatra in the Age of Mass Media by Gregory N. Daugherty Pdf

This study examines the reception of Cleopatra from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day as it has been reflected in popular culture in the United States of America. Daugherty provides a broad overview of the influence of the Egyptian queen by looking at her presence in film, novels, comics, cartoons, TV shows, music, advertising and toys. The aim of the book is to show the different ways in which the figure of Cleopatra was able to reach a large and non-elite audience. Furthermore, Daugherty makes a study of the reception of Cleopatra during her own lifetime. He begins by looking at her portrayal in the vicious propaganda campaign waged by Octavian against his rival Marc Antony. The consequence was that Cleopatra was left with a tarnished reputation after the civil war. Daugherty's examination of both the historical and contemporary reception of Cleopatra shows the enduring legacy of one of history's most remarkable queens.

Author : Antony Augoustakis,Monica S. Cyrino
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350144255

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Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City by Antony Augoustakis,Monica S. Cyrino Pdf

This is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix, 2018). Covering a wide range of engaging topics, such as gender, race and politics, international scholars in the fields of classics, history and film studies discuss how the story of Troy has been recreated on screen to suit the expectations of modern audiences. The series is commended for the thought-provoking way it handles important issues arising from the Trojan War narrative that continue to impact our society today. With discussions centered on epic narrative, cast and character, as well as tragic resonances, the contributors tackle gender roles by exploring the innovative ways in which mythological female figures such as Helen, Aphrodite and the Amazons are depicted in the series. An examination is also made into the concept of the hero and how the series challenges conventional representations of masculinity. We encounter a significant investigation of race focusing on the controversial casting of Achilles, Patroclus, Zeus and other series characters with Black actors. Several essays deal with the moral and ethical complexities surrounding warfare, power and politics. The significance of costume and production design are also explored throughout the volume.

Author : Ricardo Apostol,Anastasia Bakogianni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319964577

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Locating Classical Receptions on Screen by Ricardo Apostol,Anastasia Bakogianni Pdf

This volume explores film and television sources in problematic conversation with classical antiquity, to better understand the nature of artistic reception and classical reception in particular. Drawing inspiration from well-theorized fields like adaptation studies, comparative literature, and film, the essays in this collection raise questions fundamental to the future of reception studies. The first section, ‘Beyond Fidelity’, deals with idiosyncratic adaptations of ancient sources; the second section, ‘Beyond Influence’, discusses modern works purporting to adapt ancient figures or themes that are less straightforwardly ancient than they may at first appear; while the last section, ‘Beyond Original’, uses films that lack even these murky connections to antiquity to challenge the notion that studying reception requires establishing historical connections between works. As questions of audience, interpretation, and subjectivity are central to most contemporary fields of study, this is a collection that is of interest to a wide variety of readers in the humanities.

Author : Elizabeth D. Heineman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812204346

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Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones by Elizabeth D. Heineman Pdf

Since the 1990s, sexual violence in conflict zones has received much media attention. In large part as a result of grassroots feminist organizing in the 1970s and 1980s, mass rapes in the wars in the former Yugoslavia and during the Rwandan genocide received widespread coverage, and international organizations—from courts to NGOs to the UN—have engaged in systematic efforts to hold perpetrators accountable and to ameliorate the effects of wartime sexual violence. Yet many millennia of conflict preceded these developments, and we know little about the longer-term history of conflict-based sexual violence. Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones helps to fill in the historical gaps. It provides insight into subjects that are of deep concern to the human rights community, such as the aftermath of conflict-based sexual violence, legal strategies for prosecuting it, the economic functions of sexual violence, and the ways perceived religious or racial difference can create or aggravate settings of sexual danger. Essays in the volume span a broad geographic, chronological, and thematic scope, touching on the ancient world, medieval Europe, the American Revolutionary War, precolonial and colonial Africa, Muslim Central Asia, the two world wars, and the Bangladeshi War of Independence. By considering a wide variety of cases, the contributors analyze the factors making sexual violence in conflict zones more or less likely and the resulting trauma more or less devastating. Topics covered range from the experiences of victims and the motivations of perpetrators, to the relationship between wartime and peacetime sexual violence, to the historical background of the contemporary feminist-inflected human rights moment. In bringing together historical and contemporary perspectives, this wide-ranging collection provides historians and human rights activists with tools for understanding long-term consequences of sexual violence as war-ravaged societies struggle to achieve postconflict stability.

Author : Stanley Chodorow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Civilization, Western
ISBN : UOM:39015029538744

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The Other Side of Western Civilization: The ancient world to the Reformation by Stanley Chodorow Pdf

Author : Roderick Campbell
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782976219

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Violence and Civilization by Roderick Campbell Pdf

This collection of essays begins with the premise that violence, in its relationship to order, is a central element of history. Taking a broad definition of violence, including structural and symbolic violence, the contributions move beyond the problematic of civilizationÕs mitigating or foundational role, instead seeing violence as inherently social, and, perhaps, socially inherent (if variable). The question then becomes what forms of harm are authorized or banned in which social orders and how they change over time. Beginning with a theoretical introduction, this interdisciplinary volume includes seven papers representing cultural anthropology, history, archaeology and international relations. The papers range from China to the Americas and from the 2nd millennium BCE to the 21st century CE. Some deal with long-term developments while others focus on a single time and place. Many treat the issue of the visibility/invisibility of violence, while all in one way or another deal with the role of violence in the re-production of community. Together, the volume aims to paint, with a few strokes, the outlines of a deep historical anthropology of social violence. The volume is based on the proceedings of a symposium hosted at Brown University.

Author : Benjamin Schmidt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521804086

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Innocence Abroad by Benjamin Schmidt Pdf

Innocence Abroad explores the encounter between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Author : Philip G. Dwyer,Lyndall Ryan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857452993

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Theatres of Violence by Philip G. Dwyer,Lyndall Ryan Pdf

Massacres and mass killings have always marked if not shaped the history of the world and as such are subjects of increasing interest among historians. The premise underlying this collection is that massacres were an integral, if not accepted part (until quite recently) of warfare, and that they were often fundamental to the colonizing process in the early modern and modern worlds. Making a deliberate distinction between 'massacre' and 'genocide', the editors call for an entirely separate and new subject under the rubric of 'Massacre Studies', dealing with mass killings that are not genocidal in intent. This volume offers a reflection on the nature of mass killings and extreme violence across regions and across centuries, and brings together a wide range of approaches and case studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Commerce
ISBN : UCR:31210024032607

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The Economist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Mass media
ISBN : UCBK:C095001474

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The Image of Violence in Literature, the Media, and Society by Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. Conference Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000070251115

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Journal of the Kafka Society of America by Anonim Pdf