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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      February 2024
      February 2024
      ISBN:
      9781009396691
      9781009396714
      9781009396684
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009396691
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.94kg, 554 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.887kg, 552 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Film, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Film, Media, Mass Communication
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    Film, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Film, Media, Mass Communication
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    This book aims to enhance our appreciation of the modernity of the classical cultures and, conversely, of cinema's debt to ancient Greece and Rome. It explores filmic perspectives on the ancient verbal and visual arts and applies what is often referred to as pre-cinema and what Sergei Eisenstein called cinematism: that paintings, statues, and literature anticipate modern visual technologies. The motion of bodies depicted in static arts and the vividness of epic ecphrases point to modern features of storytelling, while Plato's Cave Allegory and Zeno's Arrow Paradox have been related to film exhibition and projection since the early days of cinema. The book additionally demonstrates the extensive influence of antiquity on an age dominated by moving-image media, as with stagings of Odysseus' arrow shot through twelve axes or depictions of the Golden Fleece. Chapters interpret numerous European and American silent and sound films and some television productions and digital videos.

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