Classics for All: Reworking Antiquity in Mass CultureDunstan Lowe, Kim Shahabudin Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009 - 287 Seiten Classical culture belongs to us all: whether as academic subject or as entertainment, it constantly stimulates new ideas. In recent years, following Gladiatorâ (TM)s successful revival of the â ~toga epicâ (TM), studies of the ancient world in cinema have drawn increasing attention from authors and readers. This collection builds on current interest in this topic, taking its readers past the usual boundaries of classical reception studies into less familiarâ "and even unchartedâ "areas of ancient Greece and Rome in mass popular culture. Contributors discuss the uses of antiquity in television programmes, computer games, journalism, Hollywood blockbusters, B-movies, pornography, Web 2.0, radio drama, and childrenâ (TM)s literature. Its diverse contents celebrate the continuing influence of Classics on modern life: from controversies within academia to ephemeral pop culture, from the traditional to the cutting-edge. The reader will find both new voices and those of more established commentators, including broadcaster and historian Bettany Hughes, Latinist Paula James, and Gideon Nisbet, author of Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture. Together they demonstrate that rich rewards await anyone with an interest in our classical heritage, when they embrace the diversity and complexity of mass popular culture as a whole. |
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... centuries to reveal Pompeii's ancient mysteries . In New Orleans , those shattered homes and shattered lives could have ... century . These travellers included writers and artists of the Romantic era such as Staël , Shelley and Stendhal ...
... centuries to reveal Pompeii's ancient mysteries . In New Orleans , those shattered homes and shattered lives could have ... century . These travellers included writers and artists of the Romantic era such as Staël , Shelley and Stendhal ...
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... Century Pompeii . Nero at least fiddled while Rome burned . As Katrina roared , Bush vacationed . ( " America's Nero : Bush's Impeachable Offense ” , The Boston Phoenix , 9 September 2005 ) . This focus on President Bush - and the ...
... Century Pompeii . Nero at least fiddled while Rome burned . As Katrina roared , Bush vacationed . ( " America's Nero : Bush's Impeachable Offense ” , The Boston Phoenix , 9 September 2005 ) . This focus on President Bush - and the ...
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... century , and the realisation that advances in science could be used for harmful as well as beneficial results . In particular , the use of nuclear weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 was a horrific example of the vast destructive ...
... century , and the realisation that advances in science could be used for harmful as well as beneficial results . In particular , the use of nuclear weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 was a horrific example of the vast destructive ...
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Gutting the Argonautica? | 17 |
Rome as Pornotopia | 150 |
Audience Responses | 217 |
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