Epic Heroes on Screen

ISBN-13: 9781474454636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str.

Antony Augoustakis; Stacie Raucci

Spis treści

Series Editors’ Preface; Editors’ Acknowledgments; Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction: The Reinvention of the Ancient Hero, Antony Augoustakis and Stacie Raucci; Part I: Hercules; 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; Part II: Epic Heroes; 6. Russell Crowe and Maximal Projections in Noah (2014), Monica S. Cyrino; 7. The Immortality of Theseus and his Myth, Margaret 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; Part III: Antiheroes; 11. The Hero in a Thousand Pieces: Antiheroes in Recent Epic Cinema, Daniel Curley; 12. Trouble in the Tehran Multiplex: Xerxes, 300 and 300 Rise of an Empire in Iran, 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