Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition

ISBN-13: 9781474440844 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 352 str.

Meredith Safran

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This collection of fourteen essays explores how the dominant media of our time film and television have engaged with the golden age as formulated in the Western classical tradition.

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Series Editors’ preface; Editor’s Acknowledgments; Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Searching for Gold in an Age of Iron, Meredith E. Safran; Part I: The Glory That Was Greece; 1. Re-(en)gendering Heroism: Reflective Nostalgia for Peplum’s Golden Age of Heroes in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys 2.14 (1996), Vincent Tomasso; 2. Kissed by the Muse of Roller-disco: Utopia versus the Golden Ages of America, Hollywood, and Classical Myth in Xanadu (1980), Meredith E. Safran; 3. Gilding American History through Song Culture in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Ryan Platte; 4. A Leonidas for the Golden Age of Superhero Films: The Thermopylae Tradition in 300 (2006), Eric Ross; 5. The Dueling Greek Golden Ages of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), Seán Easton; 6. Confronting the Ancient Greek Golden Age in Jules Dassin’s Phaedra (1962), Emma Scioli; 7. Pericles, Cincinnatus, and Zombies: Classicizing Nostalgia in The Walking Dead (2010-), Laura Gawlinski; Part II: The Grandeur That Was Rome; 8. “All That Glitters…”: Problematizing Golden-Age Narratives in Vergil’s Aeneid and the Western Film Genre, Kirsten Day; 9. The Golden Age and Imperial Dominance in the Aeneid and Serenity (2005), Jennifer A. Rea; 10. Turning Gold into Lead: Sexual Pathology and the De-mythologizing of Augustus in HBO’s Rome (2005-2007), Thomas J. West III; 11. The Dux Femina Ends Westeros’ Golden Age: Cersei Lannister as Agrippina the Younger in HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011 - ), Meredith D. Prince; 12. The Golden Aspects of Roman Imperialism in Film, 1914-2015, Anise K. Strong; 13. Broken Eagles: The Iron Age of Imperial Roman Warfare in Post-9/11 Film, Alex McAuley; 14. Dreaming of Rome with Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000), Matthew Taylor; Filmography; Bibliography; Index