This volume examines cinematic representations of ancient Greek women from the realms of myth and history. It discusses how these female figures were resurrected on the big screen by different filmmakers during different historical moments, and were therefore embedded within a narrative which served various purposes.
This volume examines cinematic representations of ancient Greek women from the realms of myth and history. It discusses how these female figures were resurrected on the big screen by different filmmakers during different historical moments, and were therefore embedded within a narrative which served various purposes.
Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos is Assistant Professor of Latin and Ancient Studies at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He has published a number of articles in the fields of Roman elegy, ancient history on film, and the classical tradition in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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* Acknowledgements * List of Contributors * List of Figures * Introduction * Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos * I. Helen * 1: Bella Vivante: Gazing at Helen: Helen as Polysemous Icon in Robert Wise's Helen of Troy and Michael Cacoyannis' The Trojan Women * 2: Ruby Blondell: 'Third Cheerleader from the Left': From Homer's Helen to Helen of Troy * II. Medea * 3: Kirk Ormand: Medea's Erotic Text in Jason and the Argonauts (1963) * 4: Susan O. Shapiro: Pasolini's Medea: A Twentieth Century Tragedy * 5: Annette M. Baertschi: Rebel and Martyr: The Medea of Lars von Trier * III. Penelope * 6: Joanna Paul: 'Madonna and Whore': The Many Faces of Penelope in Camerini's Ulisse (1954) * 7: Edith Hall: Why is Penelope Still Waiting? The Missing Feminist Reappraisal of the Odyssey in Cinema: 1963-2007 * IV. Other Mythical Women * 8: Arthur J. Pomeroy: The Women of Ercole * 9: Anastasia Bakogianni: Annihilating Clytemnestra: The Severing of the Mother-Daughter Bond in Michael Cacoyannis' Iphigenia (1977) * 10: Hallie Rebecca Marshall: Mythic Women in Tony Harrison's Prometheus * V. Historical Women * 11: Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos: Between Family and the Nation: Gorgo in the Cinema * 12: Kirsten Day: Representing Olympias: The Politics of Gender in Cinematic Treatments of Alexander the Great * 13: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: 'An Almost All Greek Thing': Cleopatra VII and Hollywood Imagination * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgements * List of Contributors * List of Figures * Introduction * Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos * I. Helen * 1: Bella Vivante: Gazing at Helen: Helen as Polysemous Icon in Robert Wise's Helen of Troy and Michael Cacoyannis' The Trojan Women * 2: Ruby Blondell: 'Third Cheerleader from the Left': From Homer's Helen to Helen of Troy * II. Medea * 3: Kirk Ormand: Medea's Erotic Text in Jason and the Argonauts (1963) * 4: Susan O. Shapiro: Pasolini's Medea: A Twentieth Century Tragedy * 5: Annette M. Baertschi: Rebel and Martyr: The Medea of Lars von Trier * III. Penelope * 6: Joanna Paul: 'Madonna and Whore': The Many Faces of Penelope in Camerini's Ulisse (1954) * 7: Edith Hall: Why is Penelope Still Waiting? The Missing Feminist Reappraisal of the Odyssey in Cinema: 1963-2007 * IV. Other Mythical Women * 8: Arthur J. Pomeroy: The Women of Ercole * 9: Anastasia Bakogianni: Annihilating Clytemnestra: The Severing of the Mother-Daughter Bond in Michael Cacoyannis' Iphigenia (1977) * 10: Hallie Rebecca Marshall: Mythic Women in Tony Harrison's Prometheus * V. Historical Women * 11: Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos: Between Family and the Nation: Gorgo in the Cinema * 12: Kirsten Day: Representing Olympias: The Politics of Gender in Cinematic Treatments of Alexander the Great * 13: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: 'An Almost All Greek Thing': Cleopatra VII and Hollywood Imagination * Bibliography * Index
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