Classics for All: Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag berieben und mit Randl�ren, sonst ein sehr gutes Exemplar, mit Rezension des Buches / dust jacket rubbed and with edge wear, otherwise a very good copy, with review of the book. - Classical culture belongs to us all: whether as academic subject or as entertainment, it constantly stimulates new ideas. In recent years, following Gladiator's successful revival of the �toga epic,� 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 familiar�and even uncharted�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 children�s literature. Its diverse contents celebrate the continuing influence of classics on modem life: from controversies within academia to ephemeral pop culture, from the traditional to the cutting-edgei 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. / Table of 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 Bettany Hughes Gutting the Argonautica? How to Make Jason and the Argonauts Suitable for Children Helen Lovatt Louis MacNeice�s Radio Classics: �All So Unimaginably Different�? Amanda Wrigley Part II: Re-Purposing Antiquity Playing With Antiquity: Videogame Receptions of the Classical World Dunstan Lowe �I Fear it�s Potentially Like Pompeii�: Disaster, Mass Media and the Ancient City Joanna Paul Total War and Total Realism: A Battle for Antiquity in Computer Game History Cristian Ghita & Georgios Andrikopoulos Part III: Classica Erotica �Only Spartan Women Give Birth To Real Men�: Zack Snyder�s 300 and the Male Nude Susanne Turner �Dickus Maximus�: Rome as Pomotopia Gideon Nisbet �This Way to the Red Light District�: The Internet Generation Visits the Brothel in Pompeii Kate Fisher & Rebecca Langlands Part IV: Fantasising the Classics Ancient Mythology and Modern Myths: Hercules Conquers Atlantis (1961) Kim Shahabudin Hell Hath no Fury like a Dissatisfied Viewer: Audience Responses to the Presentation of the Furies in Xena: Warrior Princess and Charmed Amanda Potter Crossing Classical Thresholds: Gods, Monsters and Hell Dimensions in the Whedon Universe Paula James Bibliography Contributors Index. ISBN 9781443801201