Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema.

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- I: The Katabasis Theme in Modern Cinema -- II: Verbal Odysseus: Narrative Strategy in the Odyssey and in The Usual Suspects -- III: Michael Cacoyannis and Irene Papas on Greek Tragedy -- IV: Eye of the Camera, Eye of the Victim: Iphigenia by Euripides and Cacoyannis -- V: Iphigenia: A Visual Essay -- VI: Tragic Features in John Ford's The Searchers -- VII: An American Tragedy: Chinatown -- VIII: Tricksters and Typists: 9 to 5 as Aristophanic Comedy -- IX: Ancient Poetics and Eisenstein's Films -- X: Film Sense in the Aeneid -- XI: Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover: A Cockney Procne -- XII: The Social Ambience of Petronius' Satyricon and Fellini Satyricon -- XIII: Star Wars and the Roman Empire -- XIV: Teaching Classical Myth and Confronting Contemporary Myths -- XV: The Sounds of Cinematic Antiquity -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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