Epic heroes on screen /

• Other Authors: Augoustakis, Antony (επιμελητής), Raucci, Stacie (επιμελήτρια)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018].
• Series: Screening antiquity
• Subjects: Μυθολογία στον κινηματογράφο; Πολιτισμός, Αρχαίος, στον κινηματογράφο; Πολιτισμός αρχαίος στην τηλεόραση.; Ήρωες στον κινηματογράφο; Ηρωες στην τηλεόραση.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Antony Augoustakis and Stacie Raucci
• 1. Hercules and the millennial generation / Jon Solomon
• 2. Hercules : the mythopoetics of new heroism / Alastair J.L. Blanshard
• 3. Hercules, Putin, and the heroic body on screen in 2014 / Emma Stafford
• 4. Heroes and companions in Hercules (2014) / Angeline Chiu
• 5. Sacrifice and salvific heroism in Supernatural (2005- ) / Meredith E. Safran
• 6. Russell Crowe and maximal projections in Noah (2014) / Monica S. Cyrino
• 7. The immortality of Theseus and his myth / Margaret M. Toscano
• 8. The changing faces of heroism in Atlantis (2013-15) / Amanda Potter
• 9. Xena : warrior, heroine, tramp / Anise K. Strong
• 10. Divergent heroism in Centurion (2010) / Hunter H. Gardner
• 11. The hero in a thousand pieces : antiheroes in recent epic cinema / Daniel Curley
• 12. Trouble in the Tehran multiplex / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
• 13. Ancient (anti)heroes on screen and ancient Greece post-9/11 / Vincent Tomasso
• 14. Making modern (anti)heroes, the ancient way / Alex McAuley.