Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World [electronic resource] /
Cyrino, Monica S.author.
Cyrino, Monica Silveira,editor.
This dynamic collection of essays by international film scholars and classicists addresses the provocative representation of sexuality in the ancient world on screen. A critical reader on approaches used to examine sexuality in classical settings, contributors use case studies from films and television series spanning from the 1920s to the present.
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Cover; Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World; Part 1: Screening Love and Sex in Ancient Myth and Literature; Chapter 1: G. W. Pabst's Hesiodic Myth of Sex in DIE BÜCHSE DER PANDORA (1929) ; Pabst and Wedekind: The Image of Lulu; Hesiod's Pandora: Exchange, Agricultural Labor, and Sexual (Re)production ; Wedekind's Lulu, Pabst's Brooks: The Exchange and Control of Fertility; Notes
Chapter 2: Kiss Me Deadly (1955): Pandora and Prometheus in Robert Aldrich's Cinematic Subversion of SpillaneThe Myth; The Movie; The Modern Prometheus and his Twentieth-Century Pandoras; Seizing the Fire; Readings of the Film; Notes; Chapter 3: Perversions of the Phaeacians: The Gothic Odyssey of Angels & Insects (1996); Courtship, Accidentally; Marriage as Misalliance; Breeding: Nature vs. Culture; Cuckoldry and Cultural Norms; Resuming the Journey: Fidelity and License; Notes; Chapter 4: Woman Trouble: True Love and Homecoming in Pedro Almodóvar's Volver (2006); Notes
Chapter 5: Sappho and Pocahontas in Terrence Malick's THE NEW WORLD (2005)Desire In and Out of Marriage; Desire and Loss; Summoning the Goddess; The Hero of Her Own Story; Notes; Chapter 6: Soul Fuck: Possession and the Female Body in Antiquity and in Cinema; Possession in the Ancient World; Possession in Film; Connections; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7: Ancient Allusions and Modern Anxieties in SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (1954); Notes; Part 2: Screening Love and Sex in Ancient History ; Chapter 8: Gorgo at the Limits of Liberation in Zack Snyder's 300 (2007); Notes
Chapter 9: Oliver Stone's Unmanning of Alexander the Great in ALEXANDER (2004)Notes; Chapter 10: The Order of Orgies: Sex and the Cinematic Roman; Roman Orgies; Orgies and Audience Identification; Notes; Chapter 11: Partnership and Love in SPARTACUS: BLOOD AND SAND (2010); Conjugal Love: Spartacus and Sura, Varro and Aurelia; Domesticated Love: From the Homosocial to the Homosexual; Roman Matronae and Slave Gladiators; Spartacus and Crixus: The Journey toward an Alliance; Notes; Chapter 12: Objects of Desire: Female Gazes and Male Bodies in Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010)
A Different Kind of PornographyWomen's Gazes and Slavery; Sex Scenes; Rape; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 13: Glenn Close Channels Theda Bara in MAXIE (1985): A Chapter in the Social History of the Snake Bra; Notes; Chapter 14: Virility and Licentiousness in ROME's Mark Antony (2005-7); Roman Political Invective; Virility vs. Licentiousness; Bounding the Hegemonic Male; Licentiousness and Fatherhood; Conclusion: The Male Body and the Male Gaze; Notes; Chapter 15: ove, Rebellion, and Cleavage: Boadicea's Hammered Breastplate in The Viking Queen (1967); Boudicca's Revolt; Building Boadicea
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Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.
This dynamic collection of essays by international film scholars and classicists addresses the provocative representation of sexuality in the ancient world on screen. A critical reader on approaches used to examine sexuality in classical settings, contributors use case studies from films and television series spanning from the 1920s to the present.
Motion pictures-History.
History, Ancient.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Motion pictures and television.
Cultural studies.
Film genres.
Film History.
Ancient History.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Screen Studies.
Cultural Studies.
Genre.