Locating Classical Receptions on Screen: Masks, Echoes, Shadows

1. Introduction Face to Face: Locating Classical Receptions on Screen; Ricardo Apostol and Anastasia Bakogianni.- 2. Indirect or Masked Modysseys? Establishing a Working Set of Criteria; Gregory N. Daugherty.- 3. Sacrificial Shadows: Tragic Greek Heroines Reinvented for Television in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Game of Thrones; Tania Evans and Amanda Potter.- 4. Statues, Synths and Simulacra: The Ovidian Contours of Screen Pygmalions; Paula James.- 5. Artefacts, Authenticity and Digital Idols: The Classical After-Image in Contemporary Hollywood Stardom; Michael Williams.- 6. From Album Alitem to Black Swan: Horace and Aronofsky on Poetic Perfection and Death; Ricardo Apostol.- 7. Shades of Ajax: In Search of the Tragic Hero in Modern War Movies; Anastasia Bakogianni.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319964569
• ISBN13: 9783319964560
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"