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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      27 January 2020
      30 January 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108756891
      9781108485401
      9781108706957
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108756891
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.91kg, 462 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.73kg, 466 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Film, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Film, Media, Mass Communication
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    Subjects:
    Film, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Film, Media, Mass Communication
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    Book description

    This book presents the first systematic appreciation of Ovid's extensive influence on, and affinity with, modern visual culture. Some topics are directly related to Ovid; others exhibit features, characters, or themes analogous to those in his works. The book demonstrates the wide-ranging ramifications that Ovidian archetypes, especially from the Metamorphoses, have provoked in a modern artistic medium that did not exist in Ovid's time. It ranges from the earliest days of film history (Georges Méliès's discovery of screen metamorphosis) and theory (Gabriele D'Annunzio's fascination with the metamorphosis of Daphne; Sergei Eisenstein's concept of film sense) through silent films, classic sound films, commercial cinema, art-house and independent films to modernism and the C.G.I. era. Films by well-known directors, including Ingmar Bergman, Walerian Borowczyk, Jean Cocteau, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, Max Ophüls, Alain Resnais, and various others, are analyzed in detail.

    Reviews

    ‘The book displays the author's impressive erudition in ancient Greek and Latin literature, and also his intimate familiarity with film theory and the necessary literature.’

    H. M. Roisman Source: Choice

    ‘… Ovid on Screen: A Montage of Attractions, emerges as [Martin Winkler’s] most ambitious and wide-ranging contribution … This is an engaging and also enjoyable book from which I have learned much.’

    James J. Clauss Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

    '… detailed, meticulously-researched, highly readable and erudite …'

    Jo-Marie Claassen Source: Anabases

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    • Chapter 1 - Cinemetamorphosis
      pp 3-23
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