Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-194) and index.
Contents
Introduction: face to face - locating classical receptions on screen / Anastasia Bakogianni and Ricardo Apostol
Indirect or masked modysseys? Establishing a working set of criteria / Gregory N. Daugherty
Sacrifical shadows: tragic Greek heroines reinvented for television in Buffy the vampire slayer and Game of thrones / Tania Evans and Amanda Potter
Statues, synths, and simulacra: the Ovidian contours of screen Pygmalions / Paula James
Artifacts, authenticity, and digital idols: the classical after-image in contemporary Hollywood stardom / Michael Williams
From Album alitem to Black swan: Horace and Aronofsky on poetic perfection and death / Ricardo Apostol
Shades of Ajax: in search of the tragic hero in modern war movies / Anastasia Bakogianni.
ISBN
9783319964560 (hardcover)
3319964569 (hardcover)
OCLC
1041498518
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