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Title Classics for all : reworking antiquity in mass culture / edited by Dunstan Lowe and Kim Shahabudin
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 287 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover -- Contents -- List of Images -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Ancient Worlds, Modern Audiences -- "Terrible, Excruciating, Wrong-Headed And Ineffectual":The Perils and Pleasures of Presenting Antiquity to a Television Audience -- Gutting the Argonautica? How to Make Jason and the Argonauts Suitable for Children -- Louis MacNeice's Radio Classics: "All So Unimaginably Different"? -- Part II: Re-Purposing Antiquity -- Playing With Antiquity: Videogame Receptions of the Classical World -- "I Fear it's Potentially Like Pompeii ":Disaster, Mass Media and the Ancient City -- Total War and Total Realism: A Battle for Antiquity in Computer Game History -- Part III: Classica Erotica -- "Only Spartan Women Give Birth To Real Men": Zack Snyder's 300 and the Male Nude -- "Dickus Maximus": Rome as Pornotopia -- "This Way to the Red Light District": The Internet Generation Visits the Brothel in Pompeii -- Part IV: Fantasising the Classics -- Ancient Mythology and Modern Myths: Hercules Conquers Atlantis (1961) -- Hell Hath no Fury like a Dissatisfied Viewer: Audience Responsesto the Presentation of the Furies in Xena -- Crossing Classical Thresholds: Gods, Monsters and Hell Dimensions in the Whedon Universe -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Summary Following "Gladiator"'s successful revival of the 'toga epic', studies of the ancient world in cinema have drawn increasing attention from readers. This collection builds on the interest in this topic, taking its readers past the usual boundaries of classical reception studies into the areas of ancient Greece and Rome in mass popular culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Antiquities in popular culture -- Congresses
Popular culture -- Classical influences -- Congresses
Classical history -- classical civilisation.
Popular culture.
Social & cultural history.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Antiquities in popular culture
Klassieke oudheid.
Massamedia.
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Lowe, Dunstan
Shahabudin, Kim
LC no. 2009396301
ISBN 1443804304
9781443804301
1282035673
9781282035676
9786612035678
6612035676