Helen Of Troy In Hollywood

Author : Laurie Maguire
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1444308637

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Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive literary biography of Helen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her story has been told and retold in almost every century from the ancient world to the modern day. Takes readers on an epic voyage into the literary representations of a woman who has wielded a great influence on Western cultural consciousness for more than three millennia Features a wide and diverse variety of literary sources, including epic, drama, novels, poems, film, comedy, and opera, and works by Homer, Euripides, Chaucer, Shakespeare Includes an analysis of a radio play by the prize-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and a Faust play by a contemporary Scottish playwright Explores themes such as narrative difficulties in portraying Helen, how legal history relates to her story, and how writers apportion blame or exculpate her Considers the aesthetic and narrative difficulties that ensue when literature translates myth

Author : Ruby Blondell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190263539

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"The story of Helen of Troy has its origins in ancient Greek epic and didactic poetry, more than 2500 years ago, but it remains one of the world's most galvanizing myths about the destructive power of beauty. Much like the ancient Greeks, our own relationship to female beauty is deeply ambivalent, fraught with both desire and danger. We worship and fear it, advertise it everywhere yet try desperately to control and contain it. No other myth evocatively captures this ambivalence better than that of Helen, daughter of Zeus and Leda, and wife of the Spartan leader Menelaus. Her elopement with (or abduction by) the Trojan prince Paris "launched a thousand ships" and started the most famous war in antiquity. For ancient Greek poets and philosophers, the Helen myth provided a means to explore the paradoxical nature of female beauty, which is at once an awe-inspiring, supremely desirable gift from the gods, essential to the perpetuation of a man's name through reproduction, yet also grants women terrifying power over men, posing a threat inseparable from its allure. Many ancients simply vilified Helen for her role in the Trojan War but there is much more to her story than that: the kidnapping of Helen by the Athenian hero Theseus, her sibling-like relationship with Achilles, the religious cult in which she was worshipped by maidens and newlyweds, and the variant tradition which claims she never went to Troy at all but was whisked away to Egypt and replaced with a phantom. In this book, author Ruby Blondell offers a fresh look at the paradoxes and ambiguities that Helen embodies. Moving from Homer and Hesiod to Sappho, Aeschylus, Euripides, and others, Helen of Troy shows how this powerful myth was continuously reshaped and revisited by the Greeks. By focusing on this key figure from ancient Greece, the book both extends our understanding of that culture and provides a fascinating perspective on our own." - Besedilo s knjižnega zavihka.

Author : Ruby Blondell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691229621

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"This book explores the representation of Helen of Troy in Hollywood film and television, with a particular focus on her defining features: transcendent beauty and transgressive erotic agency. The first chapter, on early Hollywood, sets the scene by explaining the importance of ideas about Greek beauty at the beginning of cinema and highlighting some of the problems that continue to bedevil this topic, especially "realism" and the representation of supreme beauty. Blondell argues that the problem of Helen is baked into Hollywood from the start. In subsequent chapters Blondell examines specific screen adaptations in which Helen is featured. Each of these case studies locates a particular work in its historical, cultural, and generic context, as a framework for addressing the ways in which it approaches a range of interlocking questions about beauty, its representation, and the cinematic uses of myth. The second chapter is devoted to the sole Helenic feature film of the silent period, Alexander Korda's Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927). Part II moves to the big screen epic, pairing one film from each of the two great waves of ancient world epic spanning the latter half of the 20th century: Robert Wise's 1956 epic Helen of Troy and Wolfgang Petersen's more recent extravaganza, Troy (2004). In Part III she turns to television, with a chapter on episodic tele-fantasy followed by a study of the 2003 miniseries Helen of Troy. In some of these works Helen is the central character (or "hero"); in others she is at the periphery of a masculine adventure. But in all of them she represents the threat of superhuman beauty as an inheritance from classical Greece"--

Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780521518604

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Cinema and Classical Texts by Martin M. Winkler Pdf

This book interprets films as visual texts and demonstrates the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema.

Author : Ruby Blondell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691229645

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Helen of Troy in Hollywood by Ruby Blondell Pdf

How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TV Helen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different Hollywood eras have used Helen to grapple with the problems and dynamics of gender and idealized femininity. Paying careful attention to how the image of Helen is embodied by the actors who have portrayed her, Ruby Blondell provides close readings of such works as Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy and the Star Trek episode “Elaan of Troyius,” going beyond contextualization to lead the reader through a fundamental rethinking of how we understand and interpret the classic tradition. A luminous work of scholarship by one of today’s leading classicists, Helen of Troy in Hollywood highlights the importance of ancient myths not as timeless stories frozen in the past but as lenses through which to view our own artistic, cultural, and political moment in a new light. This incisive book demonstrates how, whether as the hero of these screen adaptations or as a peripheral character in male-dominated adventures, the mythic Helen has become symbolic of the perceived dangers of superhuman beauty and transgressive erotic agency.

Author : Anne Carson
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811229371

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Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson Pdf

Anne Carson’s new work that reconsiders the stories of two iconic women—Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy—from their point of view Winner of the Governor General Award in Poetry Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater in New York, starring actor Ben Whishaw and soprano Renée Fleming and directed by Katie Mitchell.

Author : Bettany Hughes
Publisher : Random House
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Civilization, Mycenaean
ISBN : 9781844133291

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Helen of Troy by Bettany Hughes Pdf

As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close on three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek King Menelaus and the Trojan Prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for an enduring enmity between East and West. For millennia she has been viewed as ane xquisite agent of extermination. But who was she?

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Helen of Troy (Greek mythology)
ISBN : UOM:39015049189536

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Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405178549

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Troy by Martin M. Winkler Pdf

This is the first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen’s epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. The first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen’s epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic perspectives. Examines the film’s use of Homer’s Iliad and the myth of the Trojan War, its presentation of Bronze-Age archaeology, and its place in film history. Identifies the modern political overtones of the Trojan War myth as expressed in the film and explains why it found world-wide audiences. Editor and contributors are archaeologists or classical scholars, several of whom incorporate films into their teaching and research. Includes an annotated list of films and television films and series episodes on the Trojan War. Contains archaeological illustrations of Troy, relevant images of ancient art, and stills from films on the Trojan War.

Author : Bettany Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307485885

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Helen of Troy by Bettany Hughes Pdf

For 3,000 years, the woman known as Helen of Troy has been both the ideal symbol of beauty and a reminder of the terrible power beauty can wield.In her search for the identity behind this mythic figure, acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes uses Homer’s account of Helen’s life to frame her own investigation. Tracing the cultural impact that Helen has had on both the ancient world and Western civilization, Hughes explores Helen’s role and representations in literature and in art throughout the ages. This is a masterly work of historical inquiry about one of the world’s most famous women.

Author : Lian Dolan
Publisher : Prospect Park Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780984410248

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Helen of Pasadena by Lian Dolan Pdf

This laugh-out-loud funny novel about a mom reinventing herself was written by Lian Dolan, who is a Satellite Sister, writes the nationally popular blog the Chaos Chronicles, and produces the hot Chaos Chronicles podcast. She's a sharp and funny speaker who is much in demand.

Author : Carmen Bryan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416537205

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It's No Secret by Carmen Bryan Pdf

The former girlfriend of rap star Nas and mother of his daughter discusses their relationship, her part in his famous feud with rival rapper Jay-Z, and her struggle to maintain independence and find love as a single mother in the projects.

Author : Margaret George
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101218792

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Helen of Troy by Margaret George Pdf

Acclaimed author Margaret George tells the story of the legendary Greek woman whose face "launched a thousand ships" in this New York Times bestseller. The Trojan War, fought nearly twelve hundred years before the birth of Christ, and recounted in Homer's Iliad, continues to haunt us because of its origins: one woman's beauty, a visiting prince's passion, and a love that ended in tragedy. Laden with doom, yet surprising in its moments of innocence and beauty, Helen of Troy is an exquisite page-turner with a cast of irresistible, legendary characters—Odysseus, Hector, Achilles, Menelaus, Priam, Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, as well as Helen and Paris themselves. With a wealth of material that reproduces the Age of Bronze in all its glory, it brings to life a war that we have all learned about but never before experienced.

Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107191280

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Classical Literature on Screen by Martin M. Winkler Pdf

This book examines different affinities between major classical authors and great filmmakers alongside representations of ancient myth and history in popular cinema.

Author : Jack Lindsay
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:49015000753831

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