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- Title Pages
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Editor’s Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Searching for Gold in an Age of Iron
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1 Re-(en)gendering Heroism: Reflective Nostalgia for Peplum’s Golden Age of Heroes in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys 2.14 (1996) -
2 Kissed by the Muse of Roller-Disco: Utopia versus the Golden Ages of America, Hollywood, and Classical Myth in Xanadu (1980) -
3 Gilding American History through Song Culture in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) -
4 A Leonidas for the Golden Age of Superhero Films: The Thermopylae Tradition in 300 (2006) -
5 The Dueling Greek Golden Ages of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014) -
6 Confronting the Ancient Greek Golden Age in Jules Dassin’s Phaedra (1962) -
7 Pericles, Cincinnatus, and Zombies: Classicizing Nostalgia in The Walking Dead (2010–) -
8 “All That Glitters …”: Problematizing Golden-Age Narratives in Vergil’s Aeneid and the Western Film Genre -
9 The Golden Age and Imperial Dominance in the Aeneid and Serenity (2005) -
10 Turning Gold into Lead: Sexual Pathology and the De-mythologizing of Augustus in HBO’s Rome (2005–2007) -
11 The Dux Femina Ends Westeros’ Golden Age: Cersei Lannister as Agrippina the Younger in HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–) -
12 The Golden Aspects of Roman Imperialism in Film, 1914–2015 -
13 Broken Eagles: The Iron Age of Imperial Roman Warfare in Post-9/11 Film -
14 Dreaming of Rome with Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) - Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Source:
- Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition
- Author(s):
- Meredith E. Safran
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
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- Title Pages
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Editor’s Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Searching for Gold in an Age of Iron
-
1 Re-(en)gendering Heroism: Reflective Nostalgia for Peplum’s Golden Age of Heroes in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys 2.14 (1996) -
2 Kissed by the Muse of Roller-Disco: Utopia versus the Golden Ages of America, Hollywood, and Classical Myth in Xanadu (1980) -
3 Gilding American History through Song Culture in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) -
4 A Leonidas for the Golden Age of Superhero Films: The Thermopylae Tradition in 300 (2006) -
5 The Dueling Greek Golden Ages of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014) -
6 Confronting the Ancient Greek Golden Age in Jules Dassin’s Phaedra (1962) -
7 Pericles, Cincinnatus, and Zombies: Classicizing Nostalgia in The Walking Dead (2010–) -
8 “All That Glitters …”: Problematizing Golden-Age Narratives in Vergil’s Aeneid and the Western Film Genre -
9 The Golden Age and Imperial Dominance in the Aeneid and Serenity (2005) -
10 Turning Gold into Lead: Sexual Pathology and the De-mythologizing of Augustus in HBO’s Rome (2005–2007) -
11 The Dux Femina Ends Westeros’ Golden Age: Cersei Lannister as Agrippina the Younger in HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–) -
12 The Golden Aspects of Roman Imperialism in Film, 1914–2015 -
13 Broken Eagles: The Iron Age of Imperial Roman Warfare in Post-9/11 Film -
14 Dreaming of Rome with Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) - Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
