Start Over Please hold this item Export MARC Display
 
     
Limit search to available items
Record: Previous Record Next Record
Title Ancient epic in film and television / Amanda Potter; Hunter Gardner.
Publisher Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Copyright date ©2022


Click on the following to:
Connect to https://hull.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv27zdjbf
Persistent link to this item
Click link and copy URL from browser navigation toolbar

Descript 1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : illustrations.
Content text txt
Media computer
Carrier online resource
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editors' Preface -- Introduction: The Past and Future of Ancient Epic -- PART I Surge and Splendour: Ancient Epic Conventions on the Silver Screen -- 1 A View with (a) Room: Spatial Projections in Ancient and Screen Epic -- 2 Allusions to Homeric Epic in Contemporary Films, 1984-2019 -- 3 'Mighty Saga of the World's Mightiest Man': Is There Such a Thing as a Modern Hercules Epic? -- 4 Vergilian Echoes of Fate in Snowpiercer (2013): Engine and Empire without End -- 5 A Roman Epic in Modern Japan: Screening Rome as Empire Nostalgia in Takeuchi Hideki's Thermae Romae (2012) -- 6 Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Helen of Troy and the Trojan Horse -- PART II From Gold to Platinum: Epic Conventions on the Small Screen -- 7 Revival of Mythic Epics or Epic Failure? On Gods and Heroes in the Television Shows Olympus (2015) and Troy: Fall of a City (2018) -- 8 Travels with Odysseus and the Odyssey in Twenty-First-Century Television Documentaries -- 9 Many (Un)Happy Returns in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011-2019) -- 10 The Performance of War: Battle as Spectacle in the Iliad and Into the Badlands (2015-2019) -- 11 Homeric Intimacy in NBC's Hannibal (2013-2015) -- 12 The Gods in Epic Television: The Homeric Cosmos in Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009) -- 13 Towards a Definition of Twenty-First-Century Epic: Audience Responses to Game of Thrones (2011-2019) and His Dark Materials (2019-) as Epic Television -- Afterword -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
ISBN 9781474473767 (electronic bk.)
1474473768 (electronic bk.)
9781474473743
1474473741
 Click on the terms below to find similar items in the catalogue
Series Screening Antiquity
Screening antiquity.
Subject Epic films -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures and literature.
Television and literature.
Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures.
Civilization, Ancient, on television.
Epic literature -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.
Alt author Potter, Amanda, editor.
Gardner, Hunter, editor.
Descript 1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : illustrations.
Content text txt
Media computer
Carrier online resource
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editors' Preface -- Introduction: The Past and Future of Ancient Epic -- PART I Surge and Splendour: Ancient Epic Conventions on the Silver Screen -- 1 A View with (a) Room: Spatial Projections in Ancient and Screen Epic -- 2 Allusions to Homeric Epic in Contemporary Films, 1984-2019 -- 3 'Mighty Saga of the World's Mightiest Man': Is There Such a Thing as a Modern Hercules Epic? -- 4 Vergilian Echoes of Fate in Snowpiercer (2013): Engine and Empire without End -- 5 A Roman Epic in Modern Japan: Screening Rome as Empire Nostalgia in Takeuchi Hideki's Thermae Romae (2012) -- 6 Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Helen of Troy and the Trojan Horse -- PART II From Gold to Platinum: Epic Conventions on the Small Screen -- 7 Revival of Mythic Epics or Epic Failure? On Gods and Heroes in the Television Shows Olympus (2015) and Troy: Fall of a City (2018) -- 8 Travels with Odysseus and the Odyssey in Twenty-First-Century Television Documentaries -- 9 Many (Un)Happy Returns in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011-2019) -- 10 The Performance of War: Battle as Spectacle in the Iliad and Into the Badlands (2015-2019) -- 11 Homeric Intimacy in NBC's Hannibal (2013-2015) -- 12 The Gods in Epic Television: The Homeric Cosmos in Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009) -- 13 Towards a Definition of Twenty-First-Century Epic: Audience Responses to Game of Thrones (2011-2019) and His Dark Materials (2019-) as Epic Television -- Afterword -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
ISBN 9781474473767 (electronic bk.)
1474473768 (electronic bk.)
9781474473743
1474473741
Series Screening Antiquity
Screening antiquity.
Subject Epic films -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures and literature.
Television and literature.
Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures.
Civilization, Ancient, on television.
Epic literature -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.
Alt author Potter, Amanda, editor.
Gardner, Hunter, editor.

Subject Epic films -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures and literature.
Television and literature.
Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures.
Civilization, Ancient, on television.
Epic literature -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.
Descript 1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : illustrations.
Content text txt
Media computer
Carrier online resource
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editors' Preface -- Introduction: The Past and Future of Ancient Epic -- PART I Surge and Splendour: Ancient Epic Conventions on the Silver Screen -- 1 A View with (a) Room: Spatial Projections in Ancient and Screen Epic -- 2 Allusions to Homeric Epic in Contemporary Films, 1984-2019 -- 3 'Mighty Saga of the World's Mightiest Man': Is There Such a Thing as a Modern Hercules Epic? -- 4 Vergilian Echoes of Fate in Snowpiercer (2013): Engine and Empire without End -- 5 A Roman Epic in Modern Japan: Screening Rome as Empire Nostalgia in Takeuchi Hideki's Thermae Romae (2012) -- 6 Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Helen of Troy and the Trojan Horse -- PART II From Gold to Platinum: Epic Conventions on the Small Screen -- 7 Revival of Mythic Epics or Epic Failure? On Gods and Heroes in the Television Shows Olympus (2015) and Troy: Fall of a City (2018) -- 8 Travels with Odysseus and the Odyssey in Twenty-First-Century Television Documentaries -- 9 Many (Un)Happy Returns in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011-2019) -- 10 The Performance of War: Battle as Spectacle in the Iliad and Into the Badlands (2015-2019) -- 11 Homeric Intimacy in NBC's Hannibal (2013-2015) -- 12 The Gods in Epic Television: The Homeric Cosmos in Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009) -- 13 Towards a Definition of Twenty-First-Century Epic: Audience Responses to Game of Thrones (2011-2019) and His Dark Materials (2019-) as Epic Television -- Afterword -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Alt author Potter, Amanda, editor.
Gardner, Hunter, editor.
ISBN 9781474473767 (electronic bk.)
1474473768 (electronic bk.)
9781474473743
1474473741
Persistent link to this item
Click link and copy URL from browser navigation toolbar

Links and services for this item:

Persistent link to this item
Click link and copy URL from browser navigation toolbar