Overview
- Offers a new and innovative understanding of the routes by which ancient material percolates into popular consciousness
- Challenges traditional models of reception and problematizes the very concept of intertextuality
- Ranges across the fields of adaptation studies, media studies, and comparative literature
Part of the book series: The New Antiquity (NANT)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Reviews
“This book proposes a radically new way to excavate the layers of modern film and television for their underlying connections with the themes and tropes of classical antiquity. Expertly mingling interpretative techniques borrowed from Film Studies, Comparative Literature, and Adaptation Studies, the six dynamic essays in this volume skillfully investigate a range of screen texts – from The Hurt Locker to Game of Thrones – to uncover multiple strata of the deep engagements between contemporary media and the ancient world.” (Monica S. Cyrino, Professor of Classics, University of New Mexico, USA)
“Locating Classical Receptions on Screen invites the reader to embark on an intrepid journey that transcends the traditional boundaries of Classical Reception Studies. This provocative volume challenges the linear and binary engagements with the ancient past that often guide scholarly approaches to modern media. Refreshing methodologies and cross-disciplinary viewscontribute to building a stimulating collection that proposes a more dynamic and multisided look at cinema and television, and at the viewer’s ‘face to face encounters’ with Classical myths, stories, characters and ideas.” (Marta Garcia Morcillo, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Roehampton, UK)Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Anastasia Bakogianni is Lecturer in Classical Studies at Massey University, New Zealand, author of Electra Ancient & Modern: Aspects of the Tragic Heroine’s Reception (2011), editor of Dialogues with the Past: Classical Reception Theory and Practice (2013) and co-editor of War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Locating Classical Receptions on Screen
Book Subtitle: Masks, Echoes, Shadows
Editors: Ricardo Apostol, Anastasia Bakogianni
Series Title: The New Antiquity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96457-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96456-0Published: 08 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07196-7Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96457-7Published: 19 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-3017
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3025
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 198
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Classical and Antique Literature, American Cinema and TV, Adaptation Studies, Contemporary Literature