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Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009396714
The first systematic study of classical literature and arts to explain their close affinities with modern visual technologies and media.
Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009396738
This 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 : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107191280
This book examines different affinities between major classical authors and great filmmakers alongside representations of ancient myth and history in popular cinema.
Author : Thomas E. Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521196260
This book examines the surprising uses, and abuses, of the classical world in contemporary popular media.
Author : Pantelis Michelakis,Maria Wyke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107292345
In the first four decades of cinema, hundreds of films were made that drew their inspiration from ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Bible. Few of these films have been studied, and even fewer have received the critical attention they deserve. The films in question, ranging from historical and mythological epics to adaptations of ancient drama, burlesques, cartoons and documentaries, suggest a fascination with the ancient world that competes in intensity and breadth with that of Hollywood's classical era. What contribution did antiquity make to the development of early cinema? How did early cinema's representations affect modern understanding of antiquity? Existing prints as well as ephemera scattered in film archives and libraries around the world constitute an enormous field of research. This extensively illustrated edited collection is a first systematic attempt to focus on the instrumental role of silent cinema in twentieth-century conceptions of the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East.
Author : Adeline Grand-Clément,Charlotte Ribeyrol
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350169739
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 : Alastair J. L. Blanshard,Kim Shahabudin
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 071563724X
Cinema 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 : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0195130049
This title comprises a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in Ancient Greece and Rome and to films that reflect archetypal features of classical literature. The book illustrates the continuing presence of antiquity in the most varied and influential medium of modern popular culture. The diversity of content and theoretical stances found in this work should make this volume required reading for scholars and students interested in the presence of Greece and Rome in modern popular culture.
Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures
ISBN : 0197704425
This title comprises a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in Ancient Greece and Rome and to films that reflect archetypal features of classical literature.
Author : Marta Garcia Morcillo,Pauline Hanesworth,Óscar Lapeña Marchena
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135013165
In 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 : Joanna Paul
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199542925
Paul explores the relationship between films set in the ancient world and the classical epic tradition, arguing that there is a connection between the genres. Through this careful consideration of how epic manifests itself through different periods and cultures, we learn how cinema makes a claim to be a modern vehicle for a very ancient tradition.
Author : Gideon Nisbet
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1904675786
This history of Greece in the 20th century imagination - from film to science fiction and comics - examines the preconceptions of the ancient world which cause difficulties in contemporary media.
Author : Arthur J. Pomeroy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118741290
A 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 : Maria Wyke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317796060
Brought vividly to life on screen, the myth of ancient Rome resonates through modern popular culture. Projecting the Past examines how the cinematic traditions of Hollywood and Italy have resurrected ancient Rome to address the concerns of the present. The book engages contemporary debates about the nature of the classical tradition, definitions of history, and the place of the past in historical film.
Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780521518604
This book interprets films as visual texts and demonstrates the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema.