Screening the golden ages of the classical tradition /
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Screening antiquity.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I GLORY THAT WAS GREECE
- 1. Re-(en)gendering Heroism: Reflective Nostalgia for Peplum's Golden Age of Heroes in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys 2.14 (1996) / Vincent Tomasso
- 2. Kissed by the Muse of Roller-Disco: Utopia versus the Golden Ages of America, Hollywood, and Classical Myth in Xanadu (1980) / Meredith E. Safran
- 3. Gilding American History through Song Culture in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) / Ryan Platte
- 4. Leonidas for the Golden Age of Superhero Films: The Thermopylae Tradition in 300 (2006) / Eric Ross
- 5. Dueling Greek Golden Ages of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014) / Sean Easton
- 6. Confronting the Ancient Greek Golden Age in Jules Dassin's Phaedra (1962) / Emma Scioli
- 7. Pericles, Cincinnatus, and Zombies: Classicizing Nostalgia in The Walking Dead (2010--) / Laura Gawlinski
- pt. II GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME
- 8. "All That Glitters ": Problematizing Golden-Age Narratives in Vergil's Aeneid and the Western Film Genre / Kirsten Day
- 9. Golden Age and Imperial Dominance in the Aeneid and Serenity (2005) / Jennifer A. Rea
- 10. Turning Gold into Lead: Sexual Pathology and the De-mythologizing of Augustus in HBO's Rome (2005--2007) / Thomas J. West
- 11. Dux Femina Ends Westeros' Golden Age: Cersei Lannister as Agrippina the Younger in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011--) / Meredith D. Prince
- 12. Golden Aspects of Roman Imperialism in Film, 1914--2015 / Anise K. Strong
- 13. Broken Eagles: The Iron Age of Imperial Roman Warfare in Post-9/11 Film / Alex McAuley
- 14. Dreaming of Rome with Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000) / Matthew Taylor.