Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009396714)

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.

Author: Martin M. Winkler
ISBN-10: 1009396714
ISBN-13: 9781009396714
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2024
Pages: 554
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d