Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema 0195130030, 9780195130034, 9781423738787

Table of contents :
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 14
I: The Katabasis Theme in Modern Cinema......Page 34
II: Verbal Odysseus: Narrative Strategy in the Odyssey and in The Usual Suspects......Page 62
III: Michael Cacoyannis and Irene Papas on Greek Tragedy......Page 83
IV: Eye of the Camera, Eye of the Victim: Iphigenia by Euripides and Cacoyannis......Page 101
V: Iphigenia: A Visual Essay......Page 113
VI: Tragic Features in John Ford's The Searchers......Page 129
VII: An American Tragedy: Chinatown......Page 159
VIII: Tricksters and Typists: 9 to 5 as Aristophanic Comedy......Page 183
IX: Ancient Poetics and Eisenstein's Films......Page 204
X: Film Sense in the Aeneid......Page 230
XI: Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover: A Cockney Procne......Page 244
XII: The Social Ambience of Petronius' Satyricon and Fellini Satyricon......Page 269
XIII: Star Wars and the Roman Empire......Page 283
XIV: Teaching Classical Myth and Confronting Contemporary Myths......Page 302
XV: The Sounds of Cinematic Antiquity......Page 330
A......Page 350
C......Page 351
D......Page 352
F......Page 353
H......Page 354
L......Page 355
M......Page 356
P......Page 357
R......Page 358
S......Page 359
V......Page 360
Z......Page 361