Film And The Classical Epic Tradition

Author : Joanna Paul
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199542929
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film and the Classical Epic Tradition written by Joanna Paul and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul explores the relationship between films set in the ancient world and the classical epic tradition, arguing that there is a connection between the genres. Through this careful consideration of how epic manifests itself through different periods and cultures, we learn how cinema makes a claim to be a modern vehicle for a very ancient tradition.

Author : John Kevin Newman
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 029910513X
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Epic Tradition written by John Kevin Newman and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary epic and critical theories about the epic tradition are traced from Aristotle and Callimachus through Apollonius, Virgil, and their successors such as Chaucer and Milton to Eisenstein, Tolstoy, and Thomas Mann. Newman's revisionist critique will challenge all scholars, students, and general readers of the classics, comparative literature, and western literary traditions.

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Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film and the Classical Epic Tradition written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Allan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019164336X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Literature: A Very Short Introduction written by William Allan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From popular histories through to reworkings of classical subject matter by contemporary poets, dramatists, and novelists, the classical world and the masterpieces of its literature continue to fascinate readers and audiences in a huge variety of media. In this Very Short Introduction, William Allan explores what the 'classics' are and why they continue to shape our Western concepts of literature. Presenting a range of material from both Greek and Latin literature, he illustrates the variety and sophistication of these works, and considers examples from all the major genres. Ideal for the general reader interested in works of classic literature, as well as students at A-Level and University, this is a lively and lucid guide to the major authors and literary forms of the ancient period. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Amanda Potter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474473750
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Epic in Film and Television written by Amanda Potter and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Derek Elley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317928881
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Epic Film written by Derek Elley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Charlton Heston put it: ‘There’s a temptingly simple definition of the epic film: it’s the easiest kind of picture to make badly.’ This book goes beyond that definition to show how the film epic has taken up one of the most ancient art-forms and propelled it into the modern world, covered in twentieth-century ambitions, anxieties, hopes and fantasies. This survey of historical epic films dealing with periods up to the end of the Dark Ages looks at epic form and discusses the films by historical period, showing how the cinema reworks history for the changing needs of its audience, much as the ancient mythographers did. The form’s main aim has always been to entertain, and Derek Elley reminds us of the glee with which many epic films have worn their label, and of the sheer fun of the genre. He shows the many levels on which these films can work, from the most popular to the specialist, each providing a considerable source of enjoyment. For instance, spectacle, the genre’s most characteristic trademark, is merely the cinema’s own transformation of the literary epic’s taste for the grandiose. Dramatically it can serve many purposes: as a resolution of personal tensions (the chariot race in Ben-Hur), of monotheism vs idolatry (Solomon and Sheba), or of the triumph of a religious code (The Ten Commandments). Although to many people Epic equals Hollywood, throughout the book Elley stresses debt to the Italian epics, which often explored areas of history with which Hollywood could never have found sympathy. Originally published 1984.

Author : Margaret Beissinger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520210387
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World written by Margaret Beissinger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-03-31 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen essays on epic, oral and literary, from ancient to modern, from the Americas to India.

Author : Mark William Padilla
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498563511
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Myth in Alfred Hitchcock's Wrong Man and Grace Kelly Films written by Mark William Padilla and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book treats six beloved films of Hitchcock: The 39 Steps, Saboteur, and North by Northwest, plus Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, and To Catch a Thief. Padilla reviews their production histories with an eye to classical influences, and then analyzes their links with Greek art, poetry, and philosophy.

Author : Marguerite Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350021253
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antipodean Antiquities written by Marguerite Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on modern literature, film, theatre and fine art, this volume fills a decisive gap in the literature by bringing antipodean research into the spotlight. Following a contextual introduction to the field, the six parts of the volume explore the latest research on subjects that range from the Lord of the Rings and Xena: Warrior Princess franchises to important artists such as Sidney Nolan and local authors whose work offers opportunities for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis with well-known Western authors and artists.

Author : Mark William Padilla
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 149852916X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock written by Mark William Padilla and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock presents an original study of Alfred Hitchcock by considering how his classics-informed London upbringing marks some of his films. The Catholic and Irish-English Hitchcock (1899-1980) was born to a mercantile family and attended a Jesuit college preparatory, whose curriculum featured Latin and classical humanities. An important expression of Edwardian culture at-large was an appreciation for classical ideas, texts, images, and myth. Mark Padilla traces the ways that Hitchcock’s films convey mythical themes, patterns, and symbols, though they do not overtly reference them. Hitchcock was a modernist who used myth in unconscious ways as he sought to tell effective stories in the film medium. This book treats four representative films, each from a different decade of his early career. The first two movies were produced in London: The Farmer’s Wife (1928) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934); the second two in Hollywood: Rebecca (1940) and Strangers on a Train (1951). In close readings of these movies, Padilla discusses myths and literary texts such as the Judgment of Paris, The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Aristophanes’s Frogs, Apuleius’s tale “Cupid and Psyche,” Homer’s Odyssey, and The Homeric Hymn to Hermes. Additionally, many Olympian deities and heroes have archetypal resonances in the films in question. Padilla also presents a new reading of Hitchcock’s circumstances as he entered film work in 1920 and theorizes why and how the films may be viewed as an expression of the classical tradition and of classical reception. This new and important contribution to the field of classical reception in the cinema will be of great value to classicists, film scholars, and general readers interested in these topics.