Classical myth on screen

Palgrave Macmillan

2015

xi, 257 p.

9781137494535

Contents: Introduction: Cinemyths: classical myth on screen / Meredith E. Safran and Monica S. Cyrino; Part I. The hero's struggle; "Italian Stallion" meets "Breaker of Horses": Achilles and Hector in Rocky IV (1985) / Lisl Walsh; The isolated hero: Papillon (1973), Cast away (2000), and the Myth of Philoctetes / Scott A. Barnard; The limits of human knowledge: Oedipal problems in A serious man (2009) / Osman Umurhan; Orpheus in a gray flannel suit: George Nolfi's The adjustment bureau (2011) / Seán Easton; Part II. Fashioning the feminine; Dystopian Amazons: fantasies of patriarchy in Le Gladiatrici (1963) / Antony Augoustakis; Arya, Katniss, and Merida: empowering girls through the Amazonian archetype / Beverly J. Graf; The suspense thriller's Pygmalion complex: masculine desire in Vertigo (1958), Les Biches (1968), and Body double (1984) / Kaelie Thompson; Plastic surgery: failed Pygmalions and decomposing women in Les yeux sans visage (1960) and Bride of re-animator (1989) / Hunter H. Gardner; Part III. ;Negotiating the cosmic divide; Savior of the working man: Promethean allusions in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) / Alex McAuley; Magic, music, race: screening "Black enchantment" after Black Orpheus (1959) / Monica S. Cyrino; Re-conceiving Hercules: divine paternity and Christian Anxiety in Hercules (2005) / Meredith E. Safran; The twilight of Olympus: deicide and the end of the Greek gods / Vincent Tomasso; Part IV. ;Cinemyth-making; Of marketing and men: making the cinematic Greek hero, 2010-2014 / Stacie Raucci; John Cameron Mitchell's aristophanic cinema: Hedwig and the angry inch (2001) / Lorenzo F. Garcia Jr.; Dionysus comes to Gotham: forces of disorder in The Dark Knight (2008) / David Bullen; Hypatia and Brian: early Christianity as Greek mythological drama / Anise K. Strong; Divine animation: Clash of the Titans (1981) / Dan Curley.

An examination of how screen texts embrace, refute, and reinvent the cultural heritage of antiquity, this volume looks at specific story-patterns and archetypes from Greco-Roman culture. The contributors offer a variety of perspectives, highlighting key cultural relay points at which a myth is received and reformulated for a particular audience.

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