Titlebook: Classical Myth on Screen; Monica S. Cyrino,Meredith E. Safran Book 2015 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015 Classic

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Introductionrranean region and beyond—have fueled the cinematic imagination almost since the inception of film as an art form, as early as 1911 with Giovanni Pastrone’s silent film . Yet to authorize his cinematic version of the Trojan War in . (2004), screenwriter David Benioff (now well known as the co-creato

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“Italian Stallion” Meets “Breaker of Horses”: Achilles and Hector in , (1985) tales of war, friendship, and revenge can be compared.. Scholars of classical antiquity have long recognized later works as inheritance, imitation, and adaptation of Homer’s timeless epic. Sylvester Stallone’s . (1985), on the other hand, has not been regarded as timeless.. Critics have typically d

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The Isolated Hero: , (1973), , (2000), and the Myth of Philoctetesus escape from the notorious Devil’s Island after being falsely convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. En route, Papillon (Steve McQueen) befriends his fellow inmate Louis Dega (Dustin Hoffman), and each man quickly becomes indispensable to the survival of the other. Following two fail

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The Limits of Human Knowledge: Oedipal Problems in , (2009) Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (HUP) on every inch of a towering classroom blackboard.. The derivation represents the mathematical proof that proves, ironically, that there will always be some uncertainty in the measurement of physical quantities. The mathematical principle has wider philosophica

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Arya, Katniss, and Merida: Empowering Girls through the Amazonian Archetypeng female archers invoking the myth of the Amazon have come into vogue on large and small screens alike.. In contemporary incarnations, there are now so many female archers in media that screenwriters are able to parody this phenomenon with the imaginary blockbuster quadrilogy ., featured in Lake Be

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Plastic Surgery: Failed Pygmalions and Decomposing Women in , (1960) and , (1989)ays to the goddess Venus, she brings Pygmalion’s sculpture to life; he marries her and fathers a child by her. Despite this “happy ending,” the myth’s long cinematic history reflects ambiguously on the relationship between human artistry and ideals of feminine beauty. The narrative variant that char