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This book explores the changing fortunes of the heroes of Greek myth and history in the melting pot of popular culture. Using both popular and little-known examples, classicist and film fan Gideon Nisbet charts the hidden history of Greece in the twentieth-century imagination, from film to science fiction and comics. As the twenty-first century began, no less than seven production companies were declaring their intention to turn Alexander the Great into a wide-screen hero. The rivalry was intense, the resulting media circus unprecedented. How could a long-dead warlord generate so much movie-industry gossip in the present day? And why, in a century of film-making, had so few versions of his story - or that of Troy's fall - made it to the big screen? When did we last see Classical Athens or Sparta in a movie? In the aftermath of Gladiator (2000), with Hollywood studios rushing to revisit the ancient world with Troy and Alexander (both 2004), these questions take on renewed significance. Nisbet here unpacks the ideas that continue to make Greece hot property - often too hot for Hollywood to handle. His lively explorations, which assume no prior expertise in classical or film studies, will appeal to all with an interest in 'reception': the present day's continual re-use and re-invention of the past. * Part of the acclaimed Greece & Rome Live series * Covers recent films as well as many older favourites such as Hercules Unchained, Clash of the Titans, and Cleopatra * Includes handy glossary of film terms, index, guide to further reading, and a filmography * Companion to Story and Spectacle: Rome at the Cinema by Elena Theodorakopoulos (forthcoming in the same series, late 2004)
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Gideon Nisbet teaches Classics at St John's College, Oxford. He is the author of Greek Epigram in the Roman Empire: Martial's Forgotten Rivals (Oxford, 2003). He is also an ardent film-goer and observer of the Hollywood scene.
This book explores the changing fortunes of the heroes of Greek myth and history in the melting pot of popular culture. Using both popular and little-known examples, classicist and film fan Gideon Nisbet charts the hidden history of Greece in the twentieth-century imagination, from film to science fiction and comics. As the twenty-first century began, no less than seven production companies were declaring their intention to turn Alexander the Great into a wide-screen hero. The rivalry was intense, the resulting media circus unprecedented. How could a long-dead warlord generate so much movie-industry gossip in the present day? And why, in a century of film-making, had so few versions of his story - or that of Troy's fall - made it to the big screen? When did we last see Classical Athens or Sparta in a movie? In the aftermath of Gladiator (2000), with Hollywood studios rushing to revisit the ancient world with Troy and Alexander (both 2004), these questions take on renewed significance. Nisbet here unpacks the ideas that continue to make Greece hot property - often too hot for Hollywood to handle. His lively explorations, which assume no prior expertise in classical or film studies, will appeal to all with an interest in 'reception': the present day's continual re-use and re-invention of the past. * Part of the acclaimed Greece & Rome Live series * Covers recent films as well as many older favourites such as Hercules Unchained, Clash of the Titans, and Cleopatra * Includes handy glossary of film terms, index, guide to further reading, and a filmography * Companion to Story and Spectacle: Rome at the Cinema by Elena Theodorakopoulos (forthcoming in the same series, late 2004)
About the Author
Gideon Nisbet teaches Classics at St John's College, Oxford. He is the author of Greek Epigram in the Roman Empire: Martial's Forgotten Rivals (Oxford, 2003). He is also an ardent film-goer and observer of the Hollywood scene.
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