Author:
Winkler, Martin M. author.
ImprintCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Descriptionxii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note:Introduction -- Part I. Creative Affinities : Ancient Texts and Modern Images. The Classical Sense of Cinema and the Cinema's Sense of Antiquity -- Pasolini's and Cocteau's Oedipus : No Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns in the Cinema Age -- Part II. Elective Affinities : Tragedy and Comedy. Medea's Infanticide : How to Present the Unimaginable -- Striking Beauties : Aristophanes' Lysistrata -- Part III. Non-elective Affinities : Plot and Theme. "More Striking" : Aristotelian Poetics in Achilles Tatius, Heliodorus, and Alfred Hitchcock -- John Ford, America's Virgil -- Part IV. Counter-Affinities : Ideological and Narrative Distortions of History. Fascinating Ur-Fascism : The Case of 300 -- Good Nero; or, The Best Intentions -- Part V. Aesthetic Affinities : Portraits of Ladies. Regal Beauties in Franco Rossi's Films of the Odyssey and Aeneid -- Helen of Troy : Is This the Face That Launched a Thousand Films?
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-404) and index.
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