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More than a century ago, filmmakers made their primary focus innovative and widely promulgated visions of antiquity, creating a profound effect on the critical, popular, and scholarly reception of antiquity. In this volume, scholars from a variety of countries and varying academic disciplines have addressed filmâs way of using the field of Classical Reception to investigate, contemplate, and develop hypotheses about present-day culture, society, and politics, with a particular emphasis on gender and gender roles, their relationship to one another, and how filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices.
Almut-Barbara Renger, Dr. phil. (2001), Freie Universität Berlin, is Professor of Ancient Religions, Cultures and their Reception History. She has published monographs, anthologies and many articles on receptions of classical antiquity, including Oedipus and the Sphinx: The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau (2013).
Jon Solomon, Robert D. Novak Professor of Western Civilization and Culture, and Professor of the Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, works on the classical tradition in cinema and opera. His publications include The Ancient World in the Cinema (2001) and Volume I of the I Tatti translation and edition of Boccaccioâs Genealogy of the Pagan Gods (2011).
Contributors: Thorsten Beigel, Elisabeth Bronfen, Marieke Dhont, Xanne Huybrecht, Tal Ilan, Michael Kleu, Andreas Krass, Jeroen Lauwers, Christian Pischel, Ralph J. Poole, Celina Proch, Almut-Barbara Renger, Barbara Schrödl, Svetlana SlapÅ¡ak, Jon Solomon, Thomas Späth, Lada StevanoviÄ, Margaret M. Toscano, Margrit Tröhler, Xenia Zeiler
Jon Solomon, Robert D. Novak Professor of Western Civilization and Culture, and Professor of the Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, works on the classical tradition in cinema and opera. His publications include The Ancient World in the Cinema (2001) and Volume I of the I Tatti translation and edition of Boccaccioâs Genealogy of the Pagan Gods (2011).
Contributors: Thorsten Beigel, Elisabeth Bronfen, Marieke Dhont, Xanne Huybrecht, Tal Ilan, Michael Kleu, Andreas Krass, Jeroen Lauwers, Christian Pischel, Ralph J. Poole, Celina Proch, Almut-Barbara Renger, Barbara Schrödl, Svetlana SlapÅ¡ak, Jon Solomon, Thomas Späth, Lada StevanoviÄ, Margaret M. Toscano, Margrit Tröhler, Xenia Zeiler
"[A] obra é um rico contributo no justificar da percepção de como a indústria do cinema tem ajudado à nossa compreensão de nós mesmos, da nossa cultura e sociedade, e de como o conhecimento cultural e social, bem como a experiência, pode ser veiculado pelos filmes e pelas imagens" Ricardo Duarte, CADMO, Revista de História Antiga 23 (2014), pp. 249-252.
Historical Ancients
Ben-Hur and Gladiator: Manifest Destiny and the Contradictions of American Empire, Jon Solomon
Muscles and Morals: Spartacus, Ancient Hero of Modern Times, Thomas Späth & Margrit Tröhler
With Your Shield or On it: The Gender of Heroism in Zack Snyderâs 300 and Rudoph Matéâs The 300 Spartans, Thorsten Beigel
âThis is Sparta!â: Discourse, Gender, and the Orient in Zack Snyderâs 300, Jeroen Lauwers, Marieke Dhont & Xanne Huybrecht
âEverybody Loves a Muscle Boiâ: Homos, Heroes, and Foes in Post-9/11 Spoofs of The 300 Spartans, Ralph Poole
The Womanizing of Mark Antony: Virile Ruthlessness and Redemptive Cross-Dressing in Rome, Season Two, Margaret M. Toscano
Cleopatraâs Venus, Elisabeth Bronfen
Mythological Ancients
Over his Dead Body: Male Friendship in Homerâs Iliad and Wolfgang Petersenâs Troy (2004), Andreas Krass
Models of Masculinities in Troy: Achilles, Hector and Their Female Partners, Celina Proch & Michael Kleu
âInclude me outâ â Odysseus on the Margins of European Genre Cinema: Le Mépris, Ulisse, LâOdissea, Christian Pischel
Between Mythical and Rational Worlds: Medea by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lada Stevanovic
Gender Norms and Hindu Authority in the Global Media Debate on Representing the Hindu God Krishna in Xena: Warrior Princess, Xenia Zeiler
Mythological and Historical Thematics
Ancient Womenâs Cults and Rituals in Grand Narratives on Screen: From Disneyâs Snow White to Olga Maleaâs Doughnuts with Honey, Svetlana SlapÅ¡ak
Pandora-Eve-Ava: Albert Lewinâs Making of a âSecret Goddessâ, Almut-Barbara Renger
Phryne Paves the Way for the Wirtschaftswunder: Visions of Guilt and âPurityâ Fed by Ancient Greece, Christian Narrative, and Contemporary History, Barbara Schrödl
The New Israeli Film Beruriah: Between Rashi and Talmud, between Antiquity and Modernity, between Feminism and Religion, Tal Ilan
Ben-Hur and Gladiator: Manifest Destiny and the Contradictions of American Empire, Jon Solomon
Muscles and Morals: Spartacus, Ancient Hero of Modern Times, Thomas Späth & Margrit Tröhler
With Your Shield or On it: The Gender of Heroism in Zack Snyderâs 300 and Rudoph Matéâs The 300 Spartans, Thorsten Beigel
âThis is Sparta!â: Discourse, Gender, and the Orient in Zack Snyderâs 300, Jeroen Lauwers, Marieke Dhont & Xanne Huybrecht
âEverybody Loves a Muscle Boiâ: Homos, Heroes, and Foes in Post-9/11 Spoofs of The 300 Spartans, Ralph Poole
The Womanizing of Mark Antony: Virile Ruthlessness and Redemptive Cross-Dressing in Rome, Season Two, Margaret M. Toscano
Cleopatraâs Venus, Elisabeth Bronfen
Mythological Ancients
Over his Dead Body: Male Friendship in Homerâs Iliad and Wolfgang Petersenâs Troy (2004), Andreas Krass
Models of Masculinities in Troy: Achilles, Hector and Their Female Partners, Celina Proch & Michael Kleu
âInclude me outâ â Odysseus on the Margins of European Genre Cinema: Le Mépris, Ulisse, LâOdissea, Christian Pischel
Between Mythical and Rational Worlds: Medea by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lada Stevanovic
Gender Norms and Hindu Authority in the Global Media Debate on Representing the Hindu God Krishna in Xena: Warrior Princess, Xenia Zeiler
Mythological and Historical Thematics
Ancient Womenâs Cults and Rituals in Grand Narratives on Screen: From Disneyâs Snow White to Olga Maleaâs Doughnuts with Honey, Svetlana SlapÅ¡ak
Pandora-Eve-Ava: Albert Lewinâs Making of a âSecret Goddessâ, Almut-Barbara Renger
Phryne Paves the Way for the Wirtschaftswunder: Visions of Guilt and âPurityâ Fed by Ancient Greece, Christian Narrative, and Contemporary History, Barbara Schrödl
The New Israeli Film Beruriah: Between Rashi and Talmud, between Antiquity and Modernity, between Feminism and Religion, Tal Ilan
All interested in Classics, the Classical Tradition, Film Studies, Gender Studies, American Studies, Comparative Literature, Myth & Folklore, Religious Studies