Locating Classical Receptions on Screen Masks, Echoes, Shadows /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Apostol, Ricardo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bakogianni, Anastasia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The New Antiquity
• Subjects: Classical literature.; Motion pictures-United States.; Motion pictures.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Classical and Antique Literature.; American Cinema and TV.; Adaptation Studies.; Contemporary Literature.

This volume explores film and television sources in problematic conversation with classical antiquity, to better understand the nature of artistic reception and classical reception in particular. Drawing inspiration from well-theorized fields like adaptation studies, comparative literature, and film...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction Face to Face: Locating Classical Receptions on Screen; Ricardo Apostol and Anastasia Bakogianni
• 2. Indirect or Masked Modysseys? Establishing a Working Set of Criteria; Gregory N. Daugherty
• 3. Sacrificial Shadows: Tragic Greek Heroines Reinvented for Television in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Game of Thrones; Tania Evans and Amanda Potter
• 4. Statues, Synths and Simulacra: The Ovidian Contours of Screen Pygmalions; Paula James
• 5. Artefacts, Authenticity and Digital Idols: The Classical After-Image in Contemporary Hollywood Stardom; Michael Williams
• 6. From Album Alitem to Black Swan: Horace and Aronofsky on Poetic Perfection and Death; Ricardo Apostol
• 7. Shades of Ajax: In Search of the Tragic Hero in Modern War Movies; Anastasia Bakogianni.