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Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0521518601
This book interprets films as visual texts and demonstrates the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema.
Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 34,30 MB
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1107191289
This book examines different affinities between major classical authors and great filmmakers alongside representations of ancient myth and history in popular cinema.
Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 2001-06-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0198029780
Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema is a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in ancient Greece and Rome and to films that reflect archetypal features of classical literature. The diversity of content and theoretical stances found in this volume will make it required reading for scholars and students interested in interdisciplinary approaches to text and image, and for anyone interested in the presence of Greece and Rome in modern popular culture.
Author : Eleftheria Thanouli
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Cinematography
ISBN : 9781906660093
This work presents a timely theoretical intervention in the analysis of contemporary film language. It has a truly international scope, featuring films and filmmakers from around the world.
Author : Martin M. Winkler Professor of Classics George Mason University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,67 MB
Release : 2001-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0195351568
Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema is a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in ancient Greece and Rome and to films that reflect archetypal features of classical literature. The diversity of content and theoretical stances found in this volume will make it required reading for scholars and students interested in interdisciplinary approaches to text and image.
Author : David Bordwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 25,5 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134988087
'A dense, challenging and important book.' Philip French Observer 'At the very least, this blockbuster is probably the best single volume history of Hollywood we're likely to get for a very long time.' Paul Kerr City Limits 'Persuasively argued, the book is also packed with facts, figures and photographs.' Nigel Andrews Financial Times Acclaimed for their breakthrough approach, Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson analyze the basic conditions of American film-making as a historical institution and consider to what extent Hollywood film production constitutes a systematic enterprise, in both its style and its business operations. Despite differences of director, genre or studio, most Hollywood films operate within a set of shared assumptions about how a film should look and sound. Such assumptions are neither natural nor inevitable; but because classical-style films have been the type most widely seen, they have come to be accepted as the 'norm' of film-making and viewing. The authors show how these classical conventions were formulated and standardized, and how they responded to the arrival of sound, colour, widescreen ratios and stereophonic sound. They argue that each new technological development has served a function within an existing narrational system. The authors also examine how the Hollywood cinema standardized the film-making process itself. They describe how, over the course of its history, Hollywood developed distinct modes of production in a constant search for maximum efficiency, predictability and novelty. Set apart by its combination of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, this book is the standard work on the classical Hollywood cinema style of film-making from the silent era to the 1960s. Now available in paperback, it is a 'must' for film students, lecturers and all those seriously interested in the development of the film industry.
Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; London : Associated University Presses
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Author : Mark William Padilla
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 149852916X
Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock presents an original study of Alfred Hitchcock by considering how his classics-informed London upbringing marks some of his films. The Catholic and Irish-English Hitchcock (1899-1980) was born to a mercantile family and attended a Jesuit college preparatory, whose curriculum featured Latin and classical humanities. An important expression of Edwardian culture at-large was an appreciation for classical ideas, texts, images, and myth. Mark Padilla traces the ways that Hitchcock’s films convey mythical themes, patterns, and symbols, though they do not overtly reference them. Hitchcock was a modernist who used myth in unconscious ways as he sought to tell effective stories in the film medium. This book treats four representative films, each from a different decade of his early career. The first two movies were produced in London: The Farmer’s Wife (1928) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934); the second two in Hollywood: Rebecca (1940) and Strangers on a Train (1951). In close readings of these movies, Padilla discusses myths and literary texts such as the Judgment of Paris, The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Aristophanes’s Frogs, Apuleius’s tale “Cupid and Psyche,” Homer’s Odyssey, and The Homeric Hymn to Hermes. Additionally, many Olympian deities and heroes have archetypal resonances in the films in question. Padilla also presents a new reading of Hitchcock’s circumstances as he entered film work in 1920 and theorizes why and how the films may be viewed as an expression of the classical tradition and of classical reception. This new and important contribution to the field of classical reception in the cinema will be of great value to classicists, film scholars, and general readers interested in these topics.
Author : David Bordwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1134988095
Acclaimed for its breakthrough approach and its combination of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, this is the standard work on the classical Hollywood cinema style of film-making from the silent era to the 1960s.
Author : Jon Solomon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780300083378
This entertaining and useful book provides a comprehensive survey of films about the ancient world, from The Last Days of Pompeii to Gladiator. Jon Solomon catalogues, describes, and evaluates films set in ancient Greece and Rome, films about Greek and Roman history and mythology, films of the Old and New Testaments, films set in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Persia, films of ancient tragedies, comic films set in the ancient world, and more. The book has been updated to include feature films and made-for-television movies produced in the past two decades. More than two hundred photographs illustrate both the films themselves and the ancient sources from which their imagery derives.