Ovid on Screen: A Montage of Attractions

ISBN-13: 9781108485401 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 462 str.

Martin M. Winkler

Opis

The first study of Ovid, especially his Metamorphoses, as inherently visual literature, explaining his pervasive importance in our visual media.

Recenzje

'… detailed, meticulously-researched, highly readable and erudite …' Jo-Marie Claassen, Anabases

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Fade-in: Prooemium; Adages; Part I. Theory and Practice: 1. Cinemetamorphosis; 2. Ovid's film sense and beyond; Part II. Key Moments in Ovidian Film History: 3. D'Annunzio's Ovid and the cinematic impulse; 4. The Labyrinth: narrative complexity, deadly mazes, and Ovid's modernity; Part III. Into New Bodies: 5. Effects and essences; 6. The Beast in Man: not Ovid's, but how Ovidian!; Part IV. Love, Seduction, Death: 7. Varieties of modernism: Orpheus and Eurydice; 8. Love and death; 9. Lessons in seduction; Part V. Eternal Returns: 10. Immortality: philosophy, cinema, Ovid; 11. Ovidian returns; Sphragis: end credits; Bibliography; Index.