Hellas on Screen

by Berti, Irene

• ISBN13: 9783515092234
• ISBN10: 3515092234
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-31
• Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh

Summary

The recent success of Hollywood blockbusters such as Troy, Alexander and 300 demonstrates how popular Greek antiquity still is and how well it can be marketed. Today as in the golden age of the peplum-genre, its myths, the Homeric heroes, the Attic tragedies, and less frequently historical personages such as Alexander the Great or the Spartan king Leonidas represent Hellas. The authors of this volume highlight the many and varied forms of the reception of ancient Hellas in the history of the cinema, from mythology to Roman Greece, from the era of silent films to the new millennium. In this, they are examining classic films, recent releases, and lesser known and often overlooked productions.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 5
"Does Greece - and the Cinema - need another Alexander?"	p. 9
Classic Sceneries: Setting Ancient Greece in Film Architecture	p. 21
Colourful Heroes: Ancient Greece and the Children's Animation Film	p. 39
By Heracles! From Satyr-Play to Peplum	p. 57
Odysseus' Journey through Film	p. 65
The Legend of Oedipus: Silent Cinema, Theatre, Photography	p. 75
Pasolini, Aristotle and Freud: Filmed Drama between Psychoanalysis and "Neoclassicism"	p. 89
Sparta and Ancient Greece in The 300 Spartans	p. 117
"A rare ensample of Friendship true": the Story of Damon and Pythias	p. 131
Celluloid Alexander(s): A Hero from the Past as Role Model for the Present?	p. 147
Plutarch's and Stone's Alexander	p. 163
Making Alexander Fit for the Twenty-first Century: Oliver Stone's Alexander	p. 185
Phryne: from Knidian Venus to Movie Star	p. 203
Graecia capta? Depictions of Greeks and Hellas in "Roman films"	p. 219
Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 251
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